3-min music lesson: the transition from Swing to Bebop.  

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Funny but no. Bird was just a genius who changed the world.

The same story goes with the beginning of Bossa Nova. It’s been said that this style was started by a guitarist who could not play. However it was based on the natural feeling of rhythm of Brazilians . Very smart.

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.

It seems like every comment section has somebody calling something embarrassing lately.

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 🎶🎶

I agree 👍💯.

Thank you, man!

Dudes a music wizard

Charles Wicksteed was the king of swing(s). I'm not sure if he played the blues harp.

@@DrLumpy your the king of clowns!

Same here. I went oh man, it’s Howard Levy, the Secret Weapon of the Flecktones.

It's a customized Hohner Marine Band in G.

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.

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!

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.

That's what they all say ... give it time lol

@@maxomilian oh I've tried.

@craigoog Well try harder !