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Daaaaang this is some next level modulation routing -- love the macro interaction!!!

Love the João Bosco song in the begining of the video!! Glad to see other folks reconigzing it!!

yeah I'm gonna need to re watch this video about 26 times because everything just flew right over my head. I play guitar and I know one scale: *THE* scale

I love the simplicity of this!

Wow !!!!

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you asked which example "swung" more and then later said most musicians "liked" teh second example better. js

What a wonderful flex

Recreating sounds takes a lot of skill, these are amazing.

Really interesting analysis, thank you! I like how you point out that the backbone doesn't have to be too straight, just consistent, with the example of the clave. And also how you explain the different kinds of swing, especially in Latin music! I'd like to add some things that are important from my experience/in my opinion: 1. Breathing, i. e. the ratio of deep and bright beats. You'll have a hard time creating groove with only the kick drum or only snare and hi-hats. You need the right balance between those. 2. Space. Not playing otherwise expected beats can for example emphasize then next played beat, or give room for other instruments, and most of all create dynamics. All in all, there are similar things to consider as in harmony, and I also feel that this should be recognized and taught much more: In harmony, you have consonance and dissonance, fulfilling expectations or withholding them, creating tension and relief. The same is essential for a satisfying groove. And you can achieve this in many ways. In harmony, you can modulate to a different key, in rhythm, you can modulate to a different time signature, even have several at once. There is so much to discover, I love it!

I was positive Neely had a video about this but can't find it. Anyway he's been through this and he has some other entertaining treatments of rhythm, like this: m.czcams.com/video/qIfD7ZN5FYI/video.html

My jazz teacher once said, 'You never be more than two semitones away from the right note. However, you'll never play correctly without proper rhythm.'

the first one was less swingy but more energetic and electric. kind of like how in Art Blakey's style it seems like a snare hit could pop out anywhere. it makes me think, swing seems initially like its less consistent than a straight beat but its really more that its 'turning' slightly off kilter. on a nuanced scale the first one to me feels more electric like seemingly random hits are like bolts arcing with the music according to the drummer feeling tensions that might be more internally perceived on a moment to moment basis than as an easy to plot out and consistent rhythm. maybe what it is about the second one is that it has the same overall 'gravity' or pull back to one but its sort of an elliptical orbit or revolution where a straight beat would be circular it feels fun and 'swingy' because its literally like the fun part of swinging on a swing or racing right as you get to the straight away, as you loop through the long and short parts of the groove i hope that makes sense haha

Good job of proving that you CAN'T teach jazz theory in 15 minutes. "...unless there's a flat sixth or flat thirteenth..." That's an assertion of fact, not an explanation. Theory is explanation.

Hello Eric! Fan of the channel here. Do you know of any preset of those old RMI digital pianos? Like this sound: czcams.com/video/SK8a6UlTh3U/video.htmlsi=0RFPKM8TEjX1UDRm

These are great videos thanks! I'm not even using vital as most of this applies to a heap of other synths too!

brazil always a reference, great video, salute from BRASIL

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Great video overall. Very informative and well explained. I will say your that explanation of Jazz chords and harmony via scales is not the best way to go about it if the end goal is applying that knowledge in practice. The vast majority of tunes and standards in jazz are were not written with scales in mind. Same goes for when you improvise or comp. You don't think about scales, but rather you think about the changes (chords). The fact that each chord comes from a parent scale doesn't necessarily mean the scale will work in the same way. A chord can have a certain quality to it that gets lost when you introduce other notes from the parent scale. That doesn't mean there are no scales in Jazz, of course there are. Minor, major, Alt. dominant, and diminished.. But scales are not the tools with which to understand jazz, and definitely not modes. Soloing on a jazz tune with the scale of each chord in mind just doesn't sound right most of the time, that's not how it's usually done.

Two of my favourite examples where some members of the band swing while the rest play straight are Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel) and Carnival (Natalie Merchant).

Awesome analysis. You've got a new subscriber!

Sick video!

Welcome to the space jaaamm...

There's only one thing wrong with this video: everything.

Someone should make a plugin that automatically applies the best syncopation formulas the studies found with a scale that goes from 0-100% where 100% is the highest point where diminishing returns started. Just apply it on your MIDI track, press Syncopate, and bam now your boring ass melody or drums is some groove sauce.

Colossal! I almost didn't watch this video because my feelings about groove are somewhat mystical and I thought it would be like explaining why a joke is funny. Far from it. I learned so much particularly in the section about the Purdy shuffle. The beauty of that man playing a constantly varying groove and scatting along further improvisations made me cry. I am untrained as a musician and have done whatever I have done through feel, that is, by instinct. Where that breaks down for me is in sequencing, though, as you point out, there is no longer an excuse for this in Ableton, my experience goes back to the roots of electronica (Pro24, the predecessor of Cubase) and in Ableton I am by no means a master, though my experience of the application of so called 'swing' by computer instruments leaves me cold. Primarily a song writer and lyricist, my admiration for those musicians who can set or reset words in a melody or write/re-write a melody or rythmn around the complex structures.of speech, mean everything to me ( Sondheim, Joni, Ellla.....). As an old guy, loving the masters of hip hop is all about how they groove not about what is being spat and I will admit that sometimes I hear a beat, at odd(in my ear) with the MC seems to carry the structure and the placement of samples appearing to break down the groove and I guess it's because I'm not hearing it the way they are.

Super well produced video, thank you!

Would love to see you recreate the lead sound from „beautiful lie“ by barking continues. It’s really textured and he is using lots of automation to make it organic

Funny how everyone is like, how do you make that really really simple sound

I prefer the simple but highly effective concept mby the great drummer Bob. oses in his Drum Wisdom book. His concept of resolution point is at the heart of groove. Basically, its the equivalent of the root not in a melody.

Fascinating subject, and very well explained. This video is a gem.

Very informative thank you

I'm Stoked and Impressed at the same damn time.

Hey Eric, really realistic and beautiful sounding patch. Love it! Have you ever heard the song "Howard Jones - I want to get to know you well"? It has a really cool steel drum like rhythmic pad sound in it. Would love to hear your idea on how the repeating effect is achieved, envelopes, arp? Anyways, thanks for sharing all that content with us! m.czcams.com/video/5Y37WPBBJIQ/video.html

Grasshopper with shades made me chuckle, haha, love this channel!(:

great video eric, god bless!

thank u so much :)

the thumbnail was ai?

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Banger thumbnail! Here before this video hits a 100k lol

Eric, did you try Bitwig? I keep imagining the incredible things you could extract from there

my jaw DROPPED at 1:52. WOW.

The instruction quality, production aesthetic, humour and originality of your uploads are not lost on this subscriber. A very sincere thank you.

3:00 imagine showing up to the research facility that day. one group gets sent off to study the effects of starvation diets and you get put into the group that gets to listen to funk drums.

Cheers from WSAP 🍻

Eric you are awesome dude,, incrediblle knowledge, cheers from brazil

Check out the Lalal.ai youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@LALALAI Also, I forgot to credit the festejo: “Inga” by Eva Ayllón

Only just found this. Now subscribed. A fountain of knowledge. Thank you so much. What was the breath controller you used in this vid?

What app is that showing the notes and chords?

I revisited this tutorial after following your video on how to make brass sounds in Vital. Combing the two techniques, plus some of my own tweaks, created a really wonderful sequence