7 Ways to Swing on the Piano with Peter Martin

[@joepalooka2145]

"Offsets"---!! That's a fantastic term for this rhythmic device. I have never heard anyone else describe it this way but it's perfect!

[@abath07]

1. Accent "+" , but not every "+", be selective 2. Listen for swing feel and imitate along with recordings of swing masters. 3. Practice swinging with one note (then try 2 notes) slow tempos are good. 4. Rhythmic precision! Steady time (good time) a metronome can help. 5. Play with confidence (swing sounds confident, a swagger feel not meek), 6. Offset triplets: offset 23, offset just 3, offset just 2. (just 1 is detached quarter notes) 7. wear a scarf... hmm

[@ianwynne764]

These are wonderful ideas. I have been pausing the video and taking notes. Thank you.

[@MrDeevo]

Loud and Ignant!! Yes!!😂😂😂👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@AlexanderKienle]

Great video. What a gift. Thank you!

[@eugenestockstill7162]

Thank you, Peter Martin!

[@premasru]

Thanks Peter. Very beginner to jazz here, i just like to see what's ahead. I heard the shout out for plant based. Yes sir😃✌

[@keyofbrink810]

Another dope lesson! Swinging for sure!

[@thomascordery7951]

Wear a scarf! Lol, something new to put on my list of things I wish I'd learned when I first started playing music!

[@icarusi]

I always think of swing as 2 notes of a triplet. Most synth sequencers now have a swing setting so you can dial how far from straight notes, to 2 of a triplet, you want. One of mine does +/- so you can move the note closer to the 1st or 3rd note of a triplet. Most just move it one way. It's interesting to listen to consistent playing of specific amounts of swing, and how it sounds in context.

[@thomascordery7951]

In a big band context it's important for the entire group to swing with consistency, but in solo I like to think of it more like speaking, or breathing, so the swing can vary from bar to bar in a natural way. There's something so constricting in my view and in those moments, to programming a strict feel into a piece of machinery. Really just like there's a place for a metronome or a click track, or rigid for intonation for that matter, but it's not every place.

[@andrewcampbell-bluespianop6741]

Thanks Peter! I find your videos very helpful so many cool ideas and tips.

[@mtaur4113]

I've even seen Herbie do one note licks, like sixteenths or something, to springboard into something else, or weaved in with or punctuated by a line that grows outward. It can legitimately groove in a larger context.

[@garythorsen2861]

On the one?

[@EliaGaitau]

Wonderful! Thanks as always Peter, great lesson! Happy new year btw :)

[@screamingjimmy]

love the one note exercise!

[@tmaddrummer]

Thanks and Blessings!

[@dan27music]

Thank you

[@SaltyMusicOne]

Man this episode is pretty deep into the feel

[@tropicjam7343]

Very good lecture about linguistic assimilation

[@JulianFernandez]

yep. it swings.

[@HaakonGraf]

Good tips .. skip the snacking though ;)

[@MorganBird]

I love the style in the examples. What would I search for to find a similar backing track?

[@InventorZahran]

Starmachine 2000 by Wintergaten has some interesting use of swung 16th notes.

[@bernhardtmitdt2586]

So interresting to watch someone jabbering and taking his morning snack.

[@reivilore]

This is fantastic content! Love the quality and overall feel.

[@dleverett1963]

Great lesson. Can you demonstrate how to play baselines? Is it just the chords being played note by note or is there some other way to play the basslines correctly? Thanks.

[@JohnHorneGuitar]

When will the You'll Hear It - branded jazz scarf be available?

[@pickinstone]

I keep asking the SAME thing. Stop holding out on us, Petah and Adam! We it to SWANG!

[@samuelplachtinsky7599]

Great stuff, please do some episode with rhodes behind you :)

[@michaelvonkessel1109]

Yes, yes, yes...

[@creativejazzpianistrobertr2172]

YEAH!! INEED THIS TKS PETER

[@davidrumpler5528]

What exactly did you mean by "off sets"? I think I understood, but I'm not 100% sure. ---Are you leaving out notes (like the middle note in a triplet)?

[@giampierogirolamo7134]

❤❤❤❤

[@echilders4u]

It would be great if you would write down some of those figures and put them on the screen.

[@thomascordery7951]

I think the one note practice might be clearer to me against a metronome.

[@teemukekkonenmusic]

Nice Peter, I've been plant based for 4 years now and never felt better!

[@ВикторТомилов-ъ4р]

!!!!!!!! Слушаю и вникаю))))

[@chriss6092]

#PlantBased Piano!

[@Jzh733]

What if one emphasizes the passing tones on the upbeats? Wrong?

[@shaonantriggersu4886]

Depends on the speed I guess

[@UkuleleAversion]

Depends on the voicing.

[@obisraelngawani1373]

the 7th one 😂😂🤣🤣

[@SergeForte]

When I saw the title I was like... Whoua 7 ways? Let's check out this... But at the end sorry there's only one way to swing and your video prove it... So please it's important to not fool the beginners with this kind of title... You're obviously a very good musician you don't need punchy lines... Just my 2mn thoughts of the day... 😉

[@fernandocarlos7352]

Salut, êtes-vous français M. Peter MARTIN ?

[@garythorsen2861]

Must be alot of piano players out there...?

[@glon6706]

Il explique les trucs simples et dès que ça part en vrille il explique rien!! Bon il joue bien c est vrai!

[@stefanoschipani]

Wear a scarf? 😩

[@stefanoschipani]

Who dont you talk about the swing groove!!!!

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

Good advice, awful humour.

[@pakiaoo7]

i had to watch this until minute 10 to realize want you meant by 7 ways of swinging, you actually meant 7 ways of practicing swing, so Im not nterested

[@MM-rr1kp]

you didnt like the bonus footage of him talking while chewing his snack?

[@karolyhorvath7624]

I love your lessons... but... No metronome? Seriously?

[@catto000]

please dont eat when you talk, you are belching and making noise with your mouse, it is disgusting,.