Drums and the 'Swing Beat'
SPECIAL NOTE: Both, the Swing Beat and the Shuffle Beat are actually accelerated versions of Dancebeat #2, the Blues Beat. In other words, by eliminating specific notes on the cymbal line in each repetition of the pattern, we can accelerate (speed-up) Blues Beat tunes to extreme tempos.
WHERE DID THESE 'STREET' TERMS
THE EARLY 'JAZZ' ERA LED TO 'SWING'.
Swing and Shuffle rhythms have always existed in a mathematical
way. They are both VERY basic in nature. Most of the music from the
1920s was based on what we now call 'Swing'. The beginnings of what
many call the 'Jazz Age' occurred in the 1920's. A predominance
of music from that time was based on what later became known as the
'Swing' beat. Some people may still occasionally use the street term 'Jazz'
beat when referring to the 'Swing' beat.
NOTE:
Street terms often tend to mean different things
to different people. Each new generation will add their
own twist to existing terms. As time passes, a whole new definition
and meaning may emerge. This tends to be the case with terms like
'Jazz', 'Swing' and 'Shuffle'.
SWING BEAT: (BRIEF HISTORY):
The actual 'Swing Era' was ushered in with the Big Bands of the late 1930's and
1940's. It appears to be uncertain which musician or group of musicians coined the
street term 'Swing' but I suspect it may have been any or all of the
following, plus any number of unknowns.
ALL of the above names were BIG innovators of what is now called the 'Swing Era" which began sometime in the 1930's and lasted into the mid-1950's.
SHUFFLE BEAT HISTORY:
Shuffle seems to have grown out of Swing (or vice versa) in the late 1930s and
early 1940s. The black musicians of that era get most of the credit for
popularizing the beat we now call 'Shuffle'. Early R&B and 'Boogie
Woogie' were largely based on the Shuffle beat, which is really just
a laid back, slower and more 'funky' form of Swing. I am told there was a 'Shuffle'
dance (very much like a Michael Jackson 'Moon Walk'). The Shuffle dance
was usually done to songs containing the rhythm we now call Shuffle. Actually,
the beat took its name from that dance known as 'The Shuffle'.
Also, the shuffle beat and early shuffle style music, based in a 12-bar 'blues' progression, tends to be acclaimed as the 'seed' or 'early cousin' from which our entire modern 'ROCK' era was born.
Now, learn to play the 'SWING" beat!PART II: "SWING"
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