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Subject: The enigma of swing revisited
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Original Message 1/10 12-May-00 @ 11:45 PM - The enigma of swing revisited
Ape
Message 2/10 13-May-00 @ 01:12 AM - RE: The enigma of swing revisited
Swing is typically when every other eighth note is retarded. If you swing an 8th note pattern 75%, which I believe is the standard swing time, you have a pattern of dotted-8th/16th/dotted-8th/16th. That would be 00-72 with the 16th note pattern being 00-36-72-80. Or if you want to swing your 16ths, you could try beats on 00-36-48-84. See what feels better.
For eighth note triplets, those would fall every 32 clockes. Straight triplets would therefore 00-32-64. Triplet (or 66%) swing would be 00-64, or again, every other one. 16th note triplets would be every 16 clocks -- 00-16-32-48-64-80. For swung 1/8 triplets, stick em at 00-32-64-80, if you're swinging the 16th go 00-32-48-80. See what you think.
Smaller swing percentages can be cool, too. Push every other one back say 3 clocks or so.
Hope this helps.
Message 3/10 13-May-00 @ 09:27 AM - RE: The enigma of swing revisited
Message 4/10 15-May-00 @ 02:24 PM - RE: The enigma of swing revisited
Ape
Message 5/10 17-May-00 @ 10:17 PM - RE: The enigma of swing revisited
Message 6/10 19-May-00 @ 06:15 PM - RE: The enigma of swing revisited
Ape
Message 7/10 19-May-00 @ 07:26 PM - RE: The enigma of swing revisited
Message 8/10 27-May-00 @ 09:59 AM - RE: The enigma of swing revisited
Ape
Message 9/10 31-May-00 @ 01:25 AM - RE: The enigma of swing revisited
A couple of guesses: A) They've got odd-timed bars strategically placed in there (2/4, 3/4, 7/8) so things aren't coming back in where you'd expect they might. B) They resample the shit out of their grooves and reassemble 'em. C) Logic lets you extract grooves from audio files and apply those to your midi. D) Triggers attached to a drum kit and one of these guys can play the fuck out of 'em.
Do you have any idea of their kit or working techniques?
Message 10/10 31-May-00 @ 09:21 PM - RE: The enigma of swing revisited
Ape
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