I managed to put together what I've been trying to master in the last year: the two ways of swinging the triplets. I have no clue what are the names of these two swings, so I will stick to the way some Malians refer to them: the "Father's rhythms" and the "Mother's rhythms".
Following are two examples of the Father's rhythm. The first recording doesn't have any feeling at all. The second one does - the feeling is quite strong but still not exaggerated. It already gets close to a binary rhythm.
No swing:
Father's swing:
The second two examples are for the Mother's rhythm. Again, the first recording holds no swing. The second does, having a strong swing while preserving the full ternary feeling.
No swing:
Mother's swing:
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Swinging triplets
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How Did you create the father's swing? it seem to be just the right swing for a lot of the Malian stuff. Did you use a drum machine? with just the swing parameter? How? thanks, Dillon
Hi Dillon! Yes, I used a sequencer. I wrote the notes with big pauses in between. So for example a cycle is not long four quarters of a note, but it is 16 quarters. Then I play the song on high speed (like 400bpm instead of 100bpm). In this way a sixteenth-of-a-note-shift makes the swing.
But were you perhaps asking about the exact position of the notes?
Thanks for the info. I'm very intrigued. If you wouldn't mind sharing the exact positions of the notes. Are they uniformly offset? I'd like to experiment some myself. Thanks, Dillon
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