3-min music lesson: the transition from Swing to Bebop.
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The shortest and the best explanation of this subject I've ever seen...
A lot of commenters here don't know who Howard Levy is. He's continuing the lineage of Toots Thielemans. Plus he's one of the original members of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. A true master.
Saw him live a couple times 20 years ago with drummer Steve Smith. Saw him on TV once, he demonstrated a chromatic scale on a diatonic harmonica by use of note bending.
Bebop happened the saxophone player was drunk during a jam, forgot the tune was in major and played a IIb5-V7b9-Im..oh s***-Imaj7 to everyone’s astonishment.The drummer was so shocked he started placing the bass drum on weird beats and the bass player started walking all over the place in search of the One. The trumpet player got all Dizzy and flipped the saxophone player the Bird. All happened in seconds and rythm-changed the world!
Reet.
Funny but no. Bird was just a genius who changed the world.
Wow, thank you. One couldn't find a better introduction to both styles.
That was awesome. I learned so much in 3 minutes and 8 seconds. Nice playing too of course
Wow, I learned more in this 3min explanation on the difference from swing to Bebop than I did reading books or watching documentaries on it..😂
Well analyzed. Well explained. Well played. That's easily a whole semester right there! Thank you so much!
Embarrassingly talented while insightful! The independence is awesome
Thanks for the refresher that explains it spot on
It seems like every comment section has somebody calling something embarrassing lately.
Howard, you really make fantastic summaries of music history and theory. Thank you for making this one, too!
“Jack of all trades” 😅
Your sense of coordination and rhythm is on point 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
Great presentation with a compelling narrative, but so much fun too!
That was very interesting Howard. Thank you very much! 🙂👍
Hearing you explain this stuff is a priviledge, thank you!
Bebop lines on a diatonic harp ... with piano chords? Wow!!
You can't hide talent - and knowledge!
...so now he's got THREE brains.
We're SO fucked. 😳🤣
dang! this cat is the real deal. immediate like and subscribe. wow. incredibly useful, that was. thank you professor, and godspeed. peace out. we keep on pickin
Very impressive! I feel I will never learn to play the piano and the harmonica like this, not to mention both at the same time.
👏👏👏👏👏 great explanation.
Wow! I've never heard bebop harmonica before.
Absolutely brilliant analysis and top level playing. Cheers man!
Thank you for that concise and fabulous lesson! 🌞
That was great, and that harp playing was great, particularly with a piano left hand
So clearly presented. I’ve been looking for something like this forever.
fantastic !
I knew there was a difference but this really showed what was happening. Merci beaucoup.
Wow, what an amazing and insightful explanation! Thank you mr Levy!
Fantastic demonstration/explanation! Thanks.
하워드 레비 스승님 많은 것을 배웠습니다. 당신은 스승님입니다. 감사드립니다.
I learned a lot from Master Howard Levy. You are the Master. Thank you.
This is the first video of yours I’ve seen and I was blown away by your harmonica solo at the end! I didn’t know you could do that lol
this is such a great explanation
This video was fun to watch and very informative! I can now pinpoint the spot where I went from loving instrumental music to thinking it was a bit too busy, and not quite as nice for my personal taste. I think you hit the nail in the head when you said swing was designed for dancing. It’s easy to move to and speaks to my inate sense of rhythm.
This is very succinct and beautifully put!
You made everything look so easy.
Fantastically entertaining and educational video!!! Thank you 🙏
superb explanation. thanks for uploading from germany
Great way of teaching! Thanks.
I knew my thing was bebop.
That was fantastic!
Outstanding!! Well done.
Best musicology lecture ever! And with a flippin' harmonica as the demo instrument! 😂 I love it!
this video made me feel great for some reason
Love hearing from a man who knows what he's talking about. But what is bebop?
Jazz genre developed by some jazz legends during jam sessions that focused on individual virtuosity and was more for listening so it developed it's own separate style detached from swing, characterized by fast lines and complicated rhythms contrasting swing at the time which was basically pop dance music 🎶🎶
Wow! This is phenomenal
excellent! hadn’t seen you before but since I just subscribed I’m going to see a lot more of you.
¡Impresionante! Con tu talento y conocimientos eres capaz de transmitir más información en tres minutos que la mayoría de los "expertos" en tres días. Muchas gracias.
Damn, didn't know you were such a great piano player.
Beautiful, Maestro! Respect!
Great video. I was wondering about any transitional music that was sort of in between these two genres, possibly Benny Goodman, Art Tatum or Coleman Hawkins.
Wow. Best vid I've seen in a while.
I agree 👍💯.
Very impressive.
You rule
Nicely done bro!
Excellent lesson!
What a talent! Thanks you!
Very well done explained and demonstrated!!! You must be a teacher in addition to being an accomplished musician. 👍🏼
Excellent! ❤❤❤
Amazing explanation
How do you play bebop on harmonica😭😭😭😭
Dudes a music wizard
Very very enjoyable! You are a true virtuoso!
Outstanding lesson!
Thank you
Amazing !
Thank you, man!
It seems some here are confusing the genre of swing with "swinging" the groove.
Cool, thanks !
Great stuff! Please sir, may I have some more?
Fantastic!
Wow. Thank you.
thanks!
wonderful lesson. talented man. wow.thanks for your teachings.
Awesome! You’re incredible! Multitalented - one-man band!❤️
Thanks Howard for that great explanation.
Thx for the video. Goooooood sumary ❤
😅😅 please make more tutorial about jazz bebop Piano..thanks
Syncopation...
🌎✌🌱🎶🎸
😅😅great teacher
I watched this whole thing before I looked at the name on the channel and realized that my parents had their minds blown by him and Bela Fleck back in the 80s 😂
Ace!
A perfect and concise explanation. I can't argue with anything here; and I usually do when Jazz history is taught.
Give me SWING! Mr. Chick Webb ( the original king of swing)
Charles Wicksteed was the king of swing(s). I'm not sure if he played the blues harp.
@@CraigLumpyLemke your the king of clowns!
Great explanation. What's the origin of the name 'Bebop'?
Amazing!!! I wonder what kind of harmonica is the one you're playing.
It's a customized Hohner Marine Band in G.
strange. I thought swing was about playing a shuffle rhythm then I suppose I mixed shuffle up with swing. Shuffle is like 6 notes and 6 notes and skipping the 2 and 5th notes but your examples were mostly all straight like 8th notes so I guess swing and bebop are not uniquely tied to a shuffle or straight beat. interesting vid. nice harmonica playing!
Shuffle and swing aren't quite the same: there's less emphasis on 1 and 3 with swing rhythms. It's also important to distinguish between "swing" music, and a general swing rhythm. If someone asks a drummer these days for a swing rhythm, it's going to be more of a bebop-type thing on the ride cymbal, as opposed to what guys like Chick Webb, Gene Krupa, and Jo Jones were doing. The Basie Band sounds different than Max Roach/Clifford Brown (though both are awesome!). And the Butterfield Blues Band sounds very different than either.
@@jorymil So...... what is swing, then? I mean, in 2 sentences, what the heck is it? How can I tell a song that's swing instead of be-bop? Or should I care? hehe I've gone this long w/o knowing, apparently. I just hear a thing and go oh, that's what it is. Prob like a 2 year hold seeing a rose and has no label yet but it still is red and smells good.
On a G harp? lolll Already then :) Much Respect!
I know that a C harp plays standard blues in G, so a G harp would play standard blues in D. Is he playing bebop on a G harp in the key of C?
@@ifolkinrock I put common "harmonica knowledge" to the side to follow Howard. His perspective is far more comprehensive and logical. Howard is definitely playing CMaj a G harp here. The equivalent would be FMaj on a C harp.
@@ifolkinrock note to self: he sounds just as fluid in all keys of any harmonica.
Thank you, my friend!
Your Swing is more dixie.....
Great video. I always wondered how we got from the sublime jazz of the 20s through the 40s and ended up with the discordant, ear-bleeding garbage that is bebop. "Hey Dizzy! How about you rip anything melodious out of the music and I'll destroy rhythm. Okay?" "Yeah, Charlie, sounds great. In a decade or so we can make jazz the most hated musical form on the planet!"
this is probably the worst take I have ever heard
Cynical and lowly informed take, sorry. You're allowed to not like bebop, but there is literally nothing discordant about it - it's a style using advanced concordant and tonal harmony. It challenged musicians on their technique, sound, speed, imagination, harmonic knowledge and acuity. It's the basis for modern jazz. Again, if you don't like it, that's a you problem.
@@Bartholomew. Just because you don't like the comment, does not mean that what's said in it is not true, at least in some parts. Americans have that issue, that nobody can criticise them, nor their arts, nor their music they have concocted, nor "their way of life". Or else … That "attitude" has created an atmosphere, and a culture, in which art forms, and music forms, are never perfected, but abandoned or fall to the lowest denominator.
@@zvonimirtosic6171you're projecting. The comment disagreed with the opinion. It didn't disagree in a meaningful or articulate way, but what you're describing about personal attacks because of a disagreement of opinion does not exist in that comment
@@mattburketthehimhis4750 Grow up kiddo. People have right to complain about the incompetence of many players who entered the jazz genre, thinking that they can play whatever and still entertain. Same has happened later in rock, pop, country, etc. and same has happened in visual arts, in journalism, literature, etc. It's the major, widespread problem that America had introduced during and immediately after the WW2, then celebrated and exported everywhere else. Jazz only happened to be the music played in America at that time, so jazz (bop) happened to the "ground zero" of that problem in popular music, abstract expressionism "ground zero" in visual art, and same as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were ground zero of the American international expansionism. That's all.
Ok! I like swing and don't like bebop.
That's what they all say ... give it time lol
@@maxomilian oh I've tried.
@craigoog Well try harder !
Does not describe hard swing at all.
Amazing!