How to Play Swing Rhythms

There are a few rules and guidelines that shape common practice for swing style and rhythms. Beware of thinking of swing as "long-short", because you could easily articulate long-short but still play straight eighth notes. Swing is actually long-*late*. ----- Click here for 14-Day Free Trial for TomPlay: https://tomplay.com/premium-trial?ref... For an additional 30% off, go to my Patreon page and signup for a free account to access an exclusive promo code.   / bradharrison   ----- Join this channel as a member to get access to perks like early video access and a huge Scale Syllabus, with play along recordings, to learn all your scales in just 24 hours:    / @bradharrison   More information on the scale syllabus here: Scale Syllabus - 14 kinds of scales, with play-along recordings, so you can master all your scales in no time at all. https://www.bradharrison.ca/scales Learn All Your Scales in 24 Hours    • Learn All Your Scales in 24 Hours. Seriously.   ----- Take lessons with me! https://www.bradharrison.ca/lessons ------ Other instalments of this series: Part 1: Rhythm Basics -    • Rhythms: The Fundamentals   Part 2: Subdivision -    • Eighth Notes, Triplets, & Sixteenths: Ever...   Part 3: Time Signatures - Compound, Complex, & Multi Meter(6/8, 2/2, cut time, etc) -    • Time Signatures: Everything You Need to Know   Part 4: Swing: When Eighths Go Rogue -    • How to Play Swing Rhythms   Part 5: Metric Madess (clave, hemiola, and all kinds of odds and sods) ------ This video contains emojis that were designed by OpenMoji – the open-source emoji and icon project. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Special thanks to OpenMoji! This video also contains photos from https://www.pexels.com/ and https://pixabay.com/. ----- Rhythms part 4: Swing 0:00 - Introduction 0:39 - Straight vs. Swung Eighth Notes 2:17 - It's not just "long-short" 3:10 - How to Learn Swing Style 4:00 - Guidelines and Common Errors 5:18 - Sixteenth Notes 6:16 - TomPlay! 7:04 - Thanks for watching!