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Ambiguity between straight-eights and triplet-eights is the core of a huge swath of jazz and blues derived music. It's called swing and it's basically the rhyth
by CPLX 3y ago
Ambiguity between straight-eights and triplet-eights is the core of a huge swath of jazz and blues derived music. It's called swing and it's basically the rhythmic equivalent of the blue third, where the ambiguity is the point.
It's beyond common, not something Hanson would be singled out for.
- Applejinx 3y agoSeveral of you missed the point. It's Metallica that's doing swing. Hanson isn't doing swing or ambiguity in Mmmbop. They're overlaying TIGHT triplets over other stuff that implies straight sixteenths. Not ambiguous at all, they nail it.
- default-kramer 3y agoHanson might indeed be doing triplets; it's too hard for me to tell without doing the Audacity legwork. (Although it sounds like straight 16ths to me.) But in any case, Metallica is definitely not doing swing here.