Swing

2002-05-01 05:15 pm

The new Forum format is great. With the old format, in order to keep track of read messages I had to visit every single message so my browser would color the link visited.
With this format I can read a thread once and have it "visited", and every time there are new postings, it shows up as "new" again. Excellent work.

Anyhow...

I saw the latest Tip, on how to make NWC play jazz, and tried it; it works marvelously! I used the technique on a transcription of "Why Don't You Do Right" as recorded by Peggy Lee and reduced (by me) for piano and tenor sax. I had made a copy with the triplets done by hand, but it looked ugly and hard to read. Furthermore, I ran into something which can't be done in NWC: a triplet within a triplet. Take three eighth notes that constitute a triplet. Now replace the first two eighth notes with a sub-triplet of three eighth notes. Can't do it. But with
the "Swing" technique, I can write it as a triplet of three sixteenth notes followed by an eighth note and it sounds correctly.

But I found that the technique using 160 and 160 as the alternating tempi sounded a bit mechanical, so I changed it to 120/90 (i.e. dotted eighth = 120 and dotted quarter = 90). Gave it a much more natural swing sound. It really cooks now.

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- seb

Re: Swing

Reply #1 – 2002-05-02 02:32 pm

About swinging with NWC, I'm about to release my final solution, which will be much more flexible than the latest tip on this; it also uses tempo items, but will allow you more precision and flexibility in the swing feelings.
Just a matter of hours or days