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“HUMANELY RAISED”

@kehaulani said in What Is This Thing Called Swing” Meets “She Blinded Me With Science”:

Good Lord, Jazz is an aural art, more connected to the physicality and rhythms of a basketball court than to a scientific micro-analysis.

You listen, get the rhythm in your bones, and, in the words of Clark Terry, "Imitate, Assimilate, Innovate".

The study was done with the “aural” analysis of professional Jazz Musicians listening and rating samples. “After listening to original and digitally tweaked piano recordings, jazz musicians were more than seven times as likely to rate music as “swinging” when the soloist’s timing was partially delayed with respect to the rhythm section, researchers report….” It analyzes and quantitates the “rhythm in your bones” for those of us who don’t have that gift, or for those who have it but can’t accurately define it and want to better understand it.

What Is This Thing Called Swing” Meets “She Blinded Me With Science”
Yesterday a scientific paper was released in the “Communication Physics” section of Nature.Com titled, “Downbeat delays are a key component of swing in jazz”.
Most people on this site would agree that in order to “Swing”, a musician extends the duration of their downbeats — every other eighth note — and shorten the beats in between to create a galloping rhythm. But the technique on its own doesn’t explain swing. The scientific analysis presented in this study concludes that listeners judge music as more swinging when the soloists’ downbeats were minutely delayed with respect to the rhythm section, but not their offbeats. This conclusion is instinctively, or subconsciously known by many successful jazz musicians, but is not consciously known by many musicians,
The full link of the article is below. The abstract reads as follows: “To which extent and how do jazz musicians synchronize their timing to create swing?” Swing is a salient feature of jazz music, yet its main psychoacoustical and musical components have remained elusive—save the obvious long-short subdivision of quarter notes. In particular, the possible role of microtiming deviations for swing has been a subject of long-standing controversy. Adopting an operational definition of swing we present a study which ultimately demonstrates a positive effect of certain microtiming deviations on swing. We manipulate the timing of original piano recordings to carry out an experiment with professional and semi-professional jazz musicians measuring the swing of different timing conditions. Thereby we prove that slightly delayed downbeats and synchronized offbeats of a soloist with respect to a rhythm section enhance swing. Analyzing a set of 456 jazz improvisations we find that many jazz musicians do use minute downbeat delays. These results show that systematic microtiming deviations in the form of downbeat delays are a key component of swing in jazz.”

Full Link
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-022-00995-z

CONCLUSION: 
It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing, and stagger your timing.

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@j-jericho
Classic Rick Martin on Lead.

@dbtrumpet
Thanks for ghe added insight!

@dbtrumpet
You seem to be very knowledgeable, I suspect with academic credibility, and have great resources. I also suspect your playing abilities are professional level. If my speculation is correct could you consider adding some more complete analysis / commentary to the routines you are posting.
Concerning this specific routine, on TH, and perhaps TM, this routine used to be credited to Dave Belknap, who posted it in 2004. Do you know whether he was the originator of this routine, or did this specific combination come from someone else?
As a 6 year comeback player, this routine is very challenging for me. Someday I hope it easily becomes part if my “daily warmup and cool down”
I will attach Dave Belknap’s TH post as well as a link to a YouTube demonstration by the late Lex Samu.
Thanks for joining and participating in TrumpetBoards.com

@bigdub

Directly from my source of this riddle, who heard it on the radio, and heard the “official” answer a few days later, the “official” answer is “wife”, mother of the child.
As for BigDub, who asked “Is that you,Pa?”, the answer is no! Based on Jolter’s question, “What have I got in my pocket?”, I am the son of of Bungo Baggins and Belladonna Took, Bilbo Baggins of Bag End. Since I have no children you would be my nephew Frodo. I hope that this straightens out your confusion.

For those that answered, “ a pickle “, or “pistol”, you are barking up the wrong tree.

@rowuk
Thanks

@trumpetb said in Question?:

My reasoning is
the questioner has a son
the father of that son is my fathers only child
my father has only one child
therefore I must be the father of the child
the child is the questioners son
the sex of the questioner is not known
I am a parent of the child and I am male
the questioner is the other parent and cannot be male
the questioner is therefore female and the childs mother
for me to be the father of the child in law then I must be married to the other parent
The questioner must therefore be my wife

Agree 100%!

The way that this is stated, I don’t think that the father is addressing and questioning himself. “My son's father ‘is your father's’ only child. What relative of yours am I?”
If he is addressing himself, then he would have said, “My son’s father is my father’s only child”. Instead he is addressed by another individual, thus making that relative, presumably his wife, the mother, or the other parent of the child.

@trumpetb said in Question?:

you are my wife

That was my conclusion as well. Wife of the father (mother of the son). I have not received the “official solution” from the person that sent it to me.

@jolter said in Question?:

@ssmith1226 "What have I got in my pocket?"

"Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?”

My son's father is your father's only child. What relative of yours am I?

@rowuk said in Olds Ambassador Eb Trumpet:

@ssmith1226 Yes, I did play one for a while. It was HORRIBLY out of tune. Had I known then what I know today, I would have been able to get that fixed. Still, It was a marching band instrument, not really something for blend in the orchestra.

I have purchased the Olds Custom Eb/D, but not received it yet. The price was right, compared too a Bach, Schilke, Yamaha, etc., and it unlikely will ever be used in an orchestra setting. What is your solution to correcting intonation issues? By the way, I plan on using in on multitrack recordings similar to ones I have posted on this site which in the past consisted of me playing, Bb, C, Bass & Piccolo Trumpets, Flugelhorn, Corno de Caccia, Mellophone etc, purely at an amateur level. I promise that I won’t abuse an orchestra with it.

@bigdub said in New YouTube video:

@georgeb
…. Steve Smith may well be one of them…..haha.

I am, and what’s so funny about that

@administrator said in Olds Ambassador Eb Trumpet:

Opinions, or facts?

Opinions based on personal experience, and or facts.
Based on the catalog listings that Rowuk posted, this model appears to be a professional level instrument, compared to the Ambassador level instrument. The question is, has anyone played this model of instrument, or, have any personal experience , or exposure to it. I am not looking for speculation. It appears to be an uncommon model.
Thanks

Anyone have any opinions on this FE Olds E-12D Custom Eb/D Trumpet?

Very fascinating!

(just kidding, sort of)