INTERPRETING AND UNDERSTANDING SWING MUSIC

We understand music interpretation to be the ability to read what the music is saying, to extract the information that the composer who created it and the musicians who are playing it put there.

Music information includes basics such as pulse, more complex things such as harmonic tension or less tangible aspects such as the energy and color of the music.

But there are also many practical aspects, such as the recognition of the 1 or the structure of the song.

We have prepared various proposals and materials on various aspects of the interpretation of swing music in order to make it easier for you to understand the music we dance to.

• Having swing
• Basic terminology of swing music structure
• Pulse recognition
• Improving one count recognition
• Song structure perception
• Riffs
• The importance of the backbeat
• Predictable patterns
• Triples or kicks?