hey guys welcome back to the episode of teach me something oh my god I want to
learn something daddy today I'll be showing you the math of drunk swing also
known as Dilla swing formerly known as triplet swing septuplets wing or
quintuplets swing let's get started
they're mathematical way of calculating the weird swinging roots you can do much
stranger things rhythmically with these concept and still have it make sense the
idea that repetition legitimizes only strengthens this concept so what does it
sound like it sounds like a drummer is playing with the drunk or sloppy feel
but still with some sort of precision swing style such as these can have a lot
of flavor two beats or instrument rhythms it's off to her to J Dilla's hip
hop beats kneel soul music beat music future beats and more it's a way of
subdividing notes when you're creating a groove you can get almost offbeat
sounding ideas to work and make sense using this idea you simply create a
subdivision an odd number is what you want to go for because an even number
already divides so three seven nine you keep into eleven thirteen I haven't
heard of anyone doing that but maybe it will say that for another video
we'll put in some drum samples real quick and I'm just gonna draw out a
simple little drumbeat I'm just gonna take sounds from my hip-hop sound kit if
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then we'll start drawing some drum notes destroying some eighth notes here all
right so we got a simple little drum loop here now I think we all have the
same concern here it sounds fucking boring the timing sounds fucking boring
sounds alright drums drum beat sounds alright but sounds boring so this is how
we're gonna fix this we're gonna calculate some different swing
measurements and we're gonna try them out here all right so this is just a
regular quadruple groove everything is on grid now we're gonna try a triplet
grid okay now for this triplet one we can do this one pretty easily
essentially we're gonna take the space of
one note and fit three notes in it so to do this in Ableton I'm gonna switch
triplet grid you press control three as you can see here I could swing it a
little bit extra here and it makes more sense to do it on up beats you can do it
on any B you want though
alright so I've moved some things around on the triplet grid there and as you can
see there's much more flavor to that drum groove
there's subdivisions between the normal fourths it's subdivided by threes now
let's try the quintuplet grid this is a little bit more complicated because
ample tyndall in here for us already so we have to create our own so i'm gonna
show you guys a little technique in order to create your own quintuplet or
septuplet grid essentially it's the same technique you just move the number up
according to the number you're trying to subdivide by okay so for this one this
one's a little more complicated i'm gonna i'm gonna create some ghost notes
down here and there there are gonna be muted so i'm gonna take six notes down
here there you select them all and there's a little handle here if you you
guys can see see my hand pointing at the screen there's a little oh there's a
little handle here and you move it to the space where there would normally be
four notes see that and you guys are probably wondering why we want this
these are gonna be our guide markers so we're just gonna duplicate this a bunch
of times there's gonna be a quintuplet guide marker here and we're gonna want
to move our notes according to this grid here
this fake grid we just made you can either move moving forward or backward
depending on up where you're going for essentially you're gonna want to move
your high hats to fit this ghost grid we created and you're gonna want to put
them in a ratio that stays the same throughout so in this case grande roue a
three to two ratio it can also look and sound like this too alright and
now let's try the septuplet essentially we're doing the same thing we're gonna
stretch the space of seven notes within the space of four notes and then we're
gonna use that as a guide book yeah guide book we're gonna use it as a
guide book for our subdividing adventure ease
I'll draw eighth notes then I get the handle at the seventh note here and I'll
move that handle down to the space of the fourth note so then it should look
like that it should be the space of seven notes within the space of a one
bar and then this one you can do we'll do a four to three ratio so every fourth
or third note you can you can play around with it though there's a lot of a
lot of different possibilities here and there's an adjusted grouping septuplets
you get much more creative with it though like you have like a really snare
something then you can add more stuff to it make it even funkier it's a sort of
per customer be good with this one
recording session there I mean the drumbeat less ass just remember you guys
can be creative with it using different drum hits and different velocities okay
that's it for this video hope you guys enjoyed it hopefully you guys learned
something it can be very useful to learn how to subdivide grooves these methods
of calculating groove can be very useful in hip hop dubstep garage and more make
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