In an age of short attention span and unending thirst for interesting content, this video is gold. 2 mins, no voices, no talking heads. Just visuals and sound. No complex music theory, no 20 minute video essay on the origin of the genre. Just the barebones of what makes swing sound like “swing” in layman’s terms. Cool stuff!
The way it builds up is so interesting and really makes you appreciate all the layers that go into it! This made me discover an appreciation for swing music I didn't know I had, gonna listen to it now lol
As a swing dancer, this is one of my favorite videos on TH-cam. I love feeling the energy of the music rise as each new section is introduced and seeing each section play their fundamental role in this awesome genre of music. Simply amazing!
You, sir, are an educator. I'm a swing dancer and this is one of the best explanations of swing music I've ever seen, succinct, easy to understand with straightforward use of visual and audio tools. I've shared it with many dancer friends already. Please keep up this wonderful series!!!
I've watched your Ragtime and Boogie Woogie videos as well and they are very well edited! I am extremely impressed with how you created clear visuals and used clever audio mutes to succinctly explain the nuances of music. Not only are the visuals clear, but there are several minor details that really up the quality of your work---clearly you are more than just a musical professional, but are skilled at art/graphic design as well. Hope your channel grows a bit more since this level of quality (and the time it takes to put something like this together) deserves more viewership.
These have quickly become some of my favorite music theory videos, and I didn't even know I wanted that in my life. They so simply explain and breakdown a genre into its parts that even a total newbie like me can understand it easily.
Folks, here’s the thing with social dancing... Guys: asking a girl to dance on a ballroom floor doesn’t mean you want to date them, or that you have a crush on them, or anything like that. When you ask a girl to dance, ask her because you want to dance, because she looks nice or dances well, or just because you know her. Don’t be nervous, the worst that can happen is that they say no. Then just ask the next girl. Additionally, dancing with lots of girls doesn’t make you ‘a charmer’ nor does it make you look ‘just desperate’. It just means you want to dance. A lot. Which is great because that means you are ahead of 90% of the other guys there. Girls: it may go two ways depending on the situation. In one, lots of guys want to dance with you. This is because they know you personally, or have seen you dance before, or because you look around a 7-8 out of 10(I’ll explain later). Just accept the first dance you seem comfortable with. Guys understand that we need to be fast to get the girl we want to dance with us. Don’t worry, you will have a chance to dance with the next guys after that song is over. The other way it can go is where guys are too anxious to dance with you. This may be because (and this may seem counter-intuitive) you look like a solid 9 or 10. This isn’t bad, but guys with no confidence will be scared to dance with someone so beautiful, so they won’t even ask. If this is happening, look around and find the guys who aren’t talking with friends, eating the snacks, or on their phone. See if anyone sends a look your way, and then quickly looks away and acts nervous. Then ask them to dance. Yes, it can seem weird at first, but it doesn’t make you look desperate like some may think. It just mean you want to dance, and no one is asking to dance with you. Just because no one asks doesn’t mean no one wants to dance with you. A social dance is a game of mental strength and confidence, and the ballroom is the playing field. Let me know if this helps, and one last thing to know: confidence is everything. And if you don’t have any confidence, just fake it. Fake it until it becomes real. (boy this was quite a blog post of a comment)
You obviously don't know anything about human nature at all. Of course when a man invites a woman to dance its because he is sexually attracted to her. If the woman accepts it's because she is interested also. The whole point of the dance is to spiritually connect with each other and figure each other out. If the social dance was a game of "mental strength and "confidence", we would probably just play a sport or just play an instrument.
Good question! Anyone with a heartbeat should recognize that this is probably the BEST kind of music to listen or dance to. Yeah...it's "old-time". Who cares?!?! It frickin' ROCKS!!! Tell me y'er toes aren't wigglin' to this? It makes ya just WANT to get up and DANCE. Not to mention...have you ever watched how folks back then actually grooved to this music? They were cuttin' some pretty mean rug! (Yeah, okay...that might be a phrase you youngsters might not recognize. "Cuttin' the rug" would equivalate to "bustin' a move".)
@@rockdog2584 well the 2020s are supposedly getting back to Swing as the "Roaring 2020s" (i frkn lmao when i heard thats what they were calling the decade)
Swing isn’t as much a music genre as it is a type of syncopation and articulation in jazz. A lot of swing you will hear might not sound like this. It’s just how you emphasize the individual notes.
I love how Dave explains music theory. Enough music terms to get tought the topic, but also not too much in order to keep it in laymans terms. Very succinct, and in building block format. I love it. I subscribed the minute I arrived to the channel late 2019.
Não sou americano, mas estudei jazz em Tatuí. Percebo o quanto a gente consegue aprender mesmo não estando lá. Mas acho que quando a gente toca na frente de um americano ele percebe os sotaques. Quando vejo musicistas tocando choro, axé, funk, samba etc eu consigo ver o sotaque do exterior mesmo as pessoas tocando certinho… Acho que issso tem conexão com a nossa escuta e prática desde a infância…
Honestly I love this format of instruction. It leaves it up the viewer what song they wanna write- all its showing is how to write it as swing. From this point it's up to us how we wanna experiment and make the song our own. I love that it doesn't even provide a general sense of the chords and progressions that make swing. Of course that can be helpful, but I feel like that's the sort of thing I'll be able to find anywhere else.
This video is absolute scaffolding. A very minimal amount of content in it, but it provides so much information that I feel like anyone can make any new genuine swing song from it. Barebones structure, sturdy and impressive results.
Man I'm just back to the channel after a couple of years and it was for youtube recomendations, I'm not disapointed at all. Just keep working on that, your job is awesome .
It’s not like I was heavily searching for it or anything like that, but for a while now I’ve been reading things that try to explain this because I’ve heard the term thrown around often without fully understanding it. This video explained in 2 minutes what huge paragraphs can’t seem to do at all.
I actually got to to see the Glen Miller Orchestra play in Chicago back in 2015. I don't think any of the original members were on stage but the band did play from the original sheet music. During the dinner, my teacher grabbed the original clarinet In The Mood sheet music off the stage for myself and the other students to snap a quick picture of it. We were literally holding a piece of history in our hands.
The original band members were all born in the first or second decade of the 20th century; only a couple of them were alive in 2015 and in none were still performing. As of this writing (end of 2018) only one member of the AAF Band is still with us, and only Ray Anthony remains from the civilian band.
got this in recommended, went to my usual music playlist i have on my channel, saw some sheet music that had "swing" in one part. wondered what it is, came back searching for the video i saw on recommended, happy
im watching this after knowing that the new title track of Seventeen, which is HOME;RUN, is a song featuring a swing genre-based retro sound & a cheerful and striking sound 🤧💓 i love this video!!
this was not the video I was expecting to see a fellow Carat on but a pleasant surprise! HOME;RUN was the song that solidified me as a Carat! (my intro to SVT was through Hoshi's single)
i have never subscribed to a channel so fast. the way you broke it down is so refreshing, and so easy to understand (especially for us non-"music theory" people)! thank you!
Got my toes a-tappin'! Gotta love that old swing jazz big band sound. Sets me groovin' from the first couple of notes. Can listen to the old swing masters all day long.
I've been trying to transcribe In the Mood into a string orchestra for a little while now, so this video helps me figure out what the rythm section is. Thanks!
Great stuff! One thing that one could add and I think is important ( not exactly necessary) is the guitar in the rhythm section. Ala Freddie Green, par example.
Really excellent explanation- I asked a musician friend of mine to explain some of these styles of music and he just kept playing and saying ‘don’t you hear the difference’ - “yes,” l said “ but that’s no help in knowing why they sound like they do”
Amazing content as usual Dave ! I'm so glad channels like yours exist so you can share a kind of music more people should know 👌 Keep it up like that 👏
Wow. I have a jazz experimentation due soon, I was starting to get worried about my methology with the jazz style. This video is exactly what I needed thank you
Thought I was gonna get an explanation for Swing Percentages but this was fantastic! Never seen a cleaner and more engaging breakdown of a concept like this!!!
I just love how you balance your channel with snack-sized musical theory as well as great original music - if I had one wish, I’d wish for more frequent video uploads! 😊
You can also follow me on Spotify here → bit.ly/DaveWave 😊🎹 🎶🎧
No click bait, straight to the point. And explained easily. Instantly subcribed.
Thank you very much! :)
Same. I subscribed to them right after the video finished haha
Informative comment, defined point of view. And no punctuation errors. Instantly liked.
Me too. It's like the second video I watched and I really appreciated it!
Yeah its easy to understand and its clear thanks you lad
For anyone looking for the name of the song, it is the legendary "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller and his orchestra.
Thank you sir, now I can finally Rest In Peace
I new what it was immediately I learned how to play it on the piano
Used to listen to glen miller with my grandma as a kid
Owe you one big time.
your comment was a year ago, yet it still helped me to this day
@@virtualcynical8515 don't worry about it my friend. Have a good day!
I was searching for copper and I found gold
Gui daxia Au I Cu
Au I Cu
why were you searching for copper
@@iguanaacuatica5543 you need to step up your meme game
It’s so called “serendipity”
In an age of short attention span and unending thirst for interesting content, this video is gold.
2 mins, no voices, no talking heads. Just visuals and sound.
No complex music theory, no 20 minute video essay on the origin of the genre. Just the barebones of what makes swing sound like “swing” in layman’s terms.
Cool stuff!
if he got a david byrne feature i would of absolutly subscribed
@@jtotheulian708 you beat me to it with that joke.
No, it isn't. It's banal, superficial and of no use whatsoever to a true musician. Which you ain't.
I guess the only one who disliked this just wasn't... In The Mood?
Perhaps they preferred to Sing, Sing, Sing?
Git
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Maybe some are, "Flying home"?
lmfao
“Rose! I’ve just realised!”
“What?”
“I can dance!”
This is why you don't skip nine.
yeah Nine could dance, but have you seen Ten?!
This line feels familiar but idk where it from (?)
Doctor Who, The empty child
i did NOT excpect i would see a Doctor Who fan here
Dude. This video should be named: "A hundred pages on music in 2 minutes.."
Rubbish. easy for him to play that fast, for a beginner confounding, what even chords he is using.
@@sophiepooks2174 12 bar blues
2 minutes. Simple. Sophisticated. To the point. How it should be - perfection. Thank you!
lol I clicked so fast the video was private
Me too
Me too.. M back after a few minutes again
@@UnusedTH-camChannel underrated comment
The way it builds up is so interesting and really makes you appreciate all the layers that go into it! This made me discover an appreciation for swing music I didn't know I had, gonna listen to it now lol
헐 사람들이 스윙 설명하는거는 다른 내용 말하며 계속 늘어트리면서 시간만 끌던데...
이분은 2분만에 완벽하게 핵심만 집어 말하네요 스윙에 대해 잘 몰랐었는데 이 영상 보고 알게 됐네요 감사합니다!
As a swing dancer, this is one of my favorite videos on TH-cam. I love feeling the energy of the music rise as each new section is introduced and seeing each section play their fundamental role in this awesome genre of music. Simply amazing!
10000% agree!
You, sir, are an educator. I'm a swing dancer and this is one of the best explanations of swing music I've ever seen, succinct, easy to understand with straightforward use of visual and audio tools. I've shared it with many dancer friends already. Please keep up this wonderful series!!!
I've watched your Ragtime and Boogie Woogie videos as well and they are very well edited! I am extremely impressed with how you created clear visuals and used clever audio mutes to succinctly explain the nuances of music. Not only are the visuals clear, but there are several minor details that really up the quality of your work---clearly you are more than just a musical professional, but are skilled at art/graphic design as well. Hope your channel grows a bit more since this level of quality (and the time it takes to put something like this together) deserves more viewership.
Thank you very much for your kind words! :)
i love the walking bassline for swing, it brings the extra mood!
These have quickly become some of my favorite music theory videos, and I didn't even know I wanted that in my life. They so simply explain and breakdown a genre into its parts that even a total newbie like me can understand it easily.
Really enjoyed this one.
Folks, here’s the thing with social dancing...
Guys: asking a girl to dance on a ballroom floor doesn’t mean you want to date them, or that you have a crush on them, or anything like that. When you ask a girl to dance, ask her because you want to dance, because she looks nice or dances well, or just because you know her. Don’t be nervous, the worst that can happen is that they say no. Then just ask the next girl. Additionally, dancing with lots of girls doesn’t make you ‘a charmer’ nor does it make you look ‘just desperate’. It just means you want to dance. A lot. Which is great because that means you are ahead of 90% of the other guys there.
Girls: it may go two ways depending on the situation. In one, lots of guys want to dance with you. This is because they know you personally, or have seen you dance before, or because you look around a 7-8 out of 10(I’ll explain later). Just accept the first dance you seem comfortable with. Guys understand that we need to be fast to get the girl we want to dance with us. Don’t worry, you will have a chance to dance with the next guys after that song is over.
The other way it can go is where guys are too anxious to dance with you. This may be because (and this may seem counter-intuitive) you look like a solid 9 or 10. This isn’t bad, but guys with no confidence will be scared to dance with someone so beautiful, so they won’t even ask. If this is happening, look around and find the guys who aren’t talking with friends, eating the snacks, or on their phone. See if anyone sends a look your way, and then quickly looks away and acts nervous. Then ask them to dance. Yes, it can seem weird at first, but it doesn’t make you look desperate like some may think. It just mean you want to dance, and no one is asking to dance with you. Just because no one asks doesn’t mean no one wants to dance with you. A social dance is a game of mental strength and confidence, and the ballroom is the playing field.
Let me know if this helps, and one last thing to know: confidence is everything. And if you don’t have any confidence, just fake it. Fake it until it becomes real.
(boy this was quite a blog post of a comment)
Carter Johnson Thank you, sir. Our acquaintance party is underway and I'm already anxious. This helps a lot!
Yo thanks man :)
I love how you never assume I'm a 1-2 XD
Now I want to learn to dance :D
You obviously don't know anything about human nature at all. Of course when a man invites a woman to dance its because he is sexually attracted to her. If the woman accepts it's because she is interested also. The whole point of the dance is to spiritually connect with each other and figure each other out.
If the social dance was a game of "mental strength and "confidence", we would probably just play a sport or just play an instrument.
this is what a real knowledge-based youtuber should be. straight to the point, simple and clear explanation.
I'm 77 and IMO Miller is one of my go-to bands. I just love swing.... Thank you!! Subbed!
I thought the thumbnail was a picture of a computer keyboard and this video was about coding in Java Swing, but this is a much better video.
Derp Herpington same here!
Real question is why doesn't it exist anymore
Good question! Anyone with a heartbeat should recognize that this is probably the BEST kind of music to listen or dance to. Yeah...it's "old-time". Who cares?!?! It frickin' ROCKS!!! Tell me y'er toes aren't wigglin' to this? It makes ya just WANT to get up and DANCE.
Not to mention...have you ever watched how folks back then actually grooved to this music? They were cuttin' some pretty mean rug! (Yeah, okay...that might be a phrase you youngsters might not recognize. "Cuttin' the rug" would equivalate to "bustin' a move".)
@@rockdog2584 well the 2020s are supposedly getting back to Swing as the "Roaring 2020s" (i frkn lmao when i heard thats what they were calling the decade)
lol swing completely exists now. Almost all jazz music you hear is gonna be in swing.
Swing isn’t as much a music genre as it is a type of syncopation and articulation in jazz. A lot of swing you will hear might not sound like this. It’s just how you emphasize the individual notes.
Flou it exists completely. Almost all jazz music you hear is gonna be swing. It’s just how you articulate it.
I love how Dave explains music theory. Enough music terms to get tought the topic, but also not too much in order to keep it in laymans terms. Very succinct, and in building block format. I love it. I subscribed the minute I arrived to the channel late 2019.
After watching this I just feel the urgent need to play Swing right now!
Não sou americano, mas estudei jazz em Tatuí. Percebo o quanto a gente consegue aprender mesmo não estando lá. Mas acho que quando a gente toca na frente de um americano ele percebe os sotaques. Quando vejo musicistas tocando choro, axé, funk, samba etc eu consigo ver o sotaque do exterior mesmo as pessoas tocando certinho… Acho que issso tem conexão com a nossa escuta e prática desde a infância…
Been trying to understand the swing for a while now (especially on the piano) and you explained it so clearly, thanks!
Honestly I love this format of instruction.
It leaves it up the viewer what song they wanna write- all its showing is how to write it as swing.
From this point it's up to us how we wanna experiment and make the song our own. I love that it doesn't even provide a general sense of the chords and progressions that make swing. Of course that can be helpful, but I feel like that's the sort of thing I'll be able to find anywhere else.
Expertly explained. I've been trying to understand swing for ages. I love the piano arrangement. I would pay for a sheet music version of it honestly.
This video is absolute scaffolding. A very minimal amount of content in it, but it provides so much information that I feel like anyone can make any new genuine swing song from it. Barebones structure, sturdy and impressive results.
This video is incredible. Straight to the point, no rambling on, well made, easily undesrtandeable. Subscribed
These are some of the most interesting music videos on TH-cam! And they keep getting better
Thank you very much! :)
These videos are just perfect, no waste of time, straight to the point, well structured. Congratulations.
That was the clearest, most enlightening and just plain fun two minutes I can remember! Thanks!
I’m playing the song you played at the beginning in my music class, I love in the mood.
This was a song my grandmother still danced with, practically up until the day she passed away. One of my favorites. And VERY well explained!
Man I'm just back to the channel after a couple of years and it was for youtube recomendations, I'm not disapointed at all. Just keep working on that, your job is awesome .
Thank you very much! :)
I just love that you put the sketches exactly where the musicians are in the music video.
Great work
Thanks so much. Have tried over the years to explain swing to the "non converted." This is the best explanation thanks so much.
So what is electro swing again? 😜
Neal Rainer Chio swing with a modern twist
it's a swing but you don't need a full 20 people band
Swing but shittier
Mamarre Mamarre Mamarre Mamarre and you are like other people but shittier
@@justyourfriendlyneighborho4280 True Story
Why doesn’t this channel have more subscribers? it boosted my love for music new and old and is so much fun to watch and listen to.
Swing is my favorite genre of music so this is great
It’s not like I was heavily searching for it or anything like that, but for a while now I’ve been reading things that try to explain this because I’ve heard the term thrown around often without fully understanding it. This video explained in 2 minutes what huge paragraphs can’t seem to do at all.
Your channel is so good 👌
This is GREAT! I will listen with new ears to Swing from now on. Thanks for this!
I actually got to to see the Glen Miller Orchestra play in Chicago back in 2015. I don't think any of the original members were on stage but the band did play from the original sheet music. During the dinner, my teacher grabbed the original clarinet In The Mood sheet music off the stage for myself and the other students to snap a quick picture of it. We were literally holding a piece of history in our hands.
The original band members were all born in the first or second decade of the 20th century; only a couple of them were alive in 2015 and in none were still performing. As of this writing (end of 2018) only one member of the AAF Band is still with us, and only Ray Anthony remains from the civilian band.
Love these videos honestly :D TH-cam keeps making me unsubscribed from your channel for unknown reasons, but I still check to see for new videos!
i love how simple and quick this video explains about swing. Something hard to do, because most people will need more than 10 minutes to explain it.
Wow. Such an amazingly polished and well-made video. Very, very well done.
got this in recommended, went to my usual music playlist i have on my channel, saw some sheet music that had "swing" in one part.
wondered what it is, came back searching for the video i saw on recommended, happy
im watching this after knowing that the new title track of Seventeen, which is HOME;RUN, is a song featuring a swing genre-based retro sound & a cheerful and striking sound 🤧💓 i love this video!!
this was not the video I was expecting to see a fellow Carat on but a pleasant surprise! HOME;RUN was the song that solidified me as a Carat! (my intro to SVT was through Hoshi's single)
The most straight forward video I've ever seen! Wonderful work
You should make a mashup or a remix for all of your full songs request from these explained in two minutes guide. Loving it!
i have never subscribed to a channel so fast. the way you broke it down is so refreshing, and so easy to understand (especially for us non-"music theory" people)! thank you!
Great in theory & even better in practice:
Perfect audio-visual demonstration of the musical facts behind!!!
I always return here once in a while, couldn’t get enough of this type of videos, love it
Again, this is the best channel for videos about music.
Can't wait to see what the next project will be about!
This video deserves all the views and likes it has.
I need these videos for every single musical genre
Got my toes a-tappin'! Gotta love that old swing jazz big band sound. Sets me groovin' from the first couple of notes. Can listen to the old swing masters all day long.
I've been trying to transcribe In the Mood into a string orchestra for a little while now, so this video helps me figure out what the rythm section is. Thanks!
Rhythm section in a big band is almost always piano, bass, drums, and either guitar or banjo
Glenn Miller.....I'm no more than 20 but listened to the CD's day in and day out. I wish I was taught how to dance like my grandparents sometimes.
PLZ MAKE A FULL VERSION, BLESS U!
I remember first hearing this song at about 10. I was floored - I loved it immediately
Amazing!! Instantly subbed! This video explains it perfectly!
음악 장르에 대해 관심이 생겨서 의문이 많았는데, 스윙이라는 장르에 대해서 잘 알아볼 수 있어서 좋았습니다.😀
I'd love it if you could do "What is waltz? Explained"!
Can we do all genres of music explained?
Great stuff! One thing that one could add and I think is important ( not exactly necessary) is the guitar in the rhythm section. Ala Freddie Green, par example.
honestly love your channel, man
I was the jazz pianist at my high school so I had quite a bit of fun with swing
Even as someone who knows absolutely nothing about music, the explanation was really easy to follow along. Instant sub.
love it!! best way to lern something about the diffrent music genres
Loved the starting 15 secs of music..absolutely loved it. Also the whole video was amazing
Amazing video. I was surprised at how slow-paced the dancing was. I'd be going crazy all over the dance floor.
Agree, that was not swing dancing.
Simple, straight to the point and delivered in an informative and cool way. Great video
we need more series like this. All explained clearly
Really excellent explanation- I asked a musician friend of mine to explain some of these styles of music and he just kept playing and saying ‘don’t you hear the difference’ - “yes,” l said “ but that’s no help in knowing why they sound like they do”
I love these videos of yours, I’ve always been aware and listened to these genres of music, but I like to see how the whole thing unfolds.
A perfect video to explain what is swing.That really helpful for me. thank you
Electro swing is all well and good, but true swing, now that is something I can dance to.
Man, you're right. I was shaking my foot to the rhythm without realising as I was watching this video while reclined.
Expertly explained and beautifully demonstrated, and at the same time!
Thank you very much! :)
This was the shortest Music Theory Explanation ever. Awesome !!!!!
Amazing content as usual Dave ! I'm so glad channels like yours exist so you can share a kind of music more people should know 👌 Keep it up like that 👏
Thank you very much! :)
Wow. I have a jazz experimentation due soon, I was starting to get worried about my methology with the jazz style. This video is exactly what I needed thank you
Amazing video Dave!
love the call and response example shown. just brilliant
Thank you very much! I'm glad you liked it :)
Awesome content Dave :)
Keep the good work!
Thought I was gonna get an explanation for Swing Percentages but this was fantastic! Never seen a cleaner and more engaging breakdown of a concept like this!!!
You're amazing, dude. All your videos never disappoint. Keep it up.💕 (Also full version please)
this is literally the best edited channel on youtube
My all time favorite type of music, swing
Questo canale è assurdo!!! E' tutto quello che cercavo da tempo per le mie produzioni. E' pure in italiano piango. GRAZIE MILLE GRAZIE MILLE DI CUORE.
This is a depressingly underrated channel
What a wonderful explanation!
Right to the point with absolutely appropriate cartooning.
This video was awesome as always!
Welcome back m8, great work!
I just love how you balance your channel with snack-sized musical theory as well as great original music - if I had one wish, I’d wish for more frequent video uploads! 😊
Thank you very much! :)
Glenn Miller is definitely a great example to use, he practically helped pioneer the genre
I expected electro swing remix at the end not gonna lie xD
You know what should have millions upon millions of views? This should. Becaus this is every part of brilliant and then some.