Draft:Beat Swing

Beat swing- originally influenced by traditional swing music - is a subgenre of swing music that combines swing music with electronic music elements. It was originally developed in the year 2020 when its original creator Scott Bradley started to begin fusing traditional live swing music with electronic music and EDM. Beat swing as a genre had already drawn its many influences from electro swing, and also had drawn its many influences from that of traditional swing.

Both traditional swing, beat swing and electroswing became unique of themselves and have had similar characteristics - the most substantial difference between the instrumentation.

The instruments that were traditionally known for many years to be used in swing music have included the piano, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, jazz drum kit, guitar, and double bass. When any swing music piece with instruments of this nature gets remixed with a computer, it will automatically render itself into that to become of electro swing.

Beat swing has different instrumentation however. The instruments implemented in beat swing have included many different types of piano, a wide range array of different synths, an electric bass guitar (not the wooden bass), and a jazz drumkit. The traditional instruments in swing like that of the clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, or guitar are not routinely used. There is also no mixing or remixing implemented in the style of beat swing other than the rendered sound of live music - live music being that of any music performed live, and that of which will retain its unique distinguishable sound and timbre when performed in any hall or room setting.

Traditional swing historically had no definitive defined beat. Most of the rhythm came from the usage of hi hats and cymbals. Beat swing, while maintaining many of characteristics of traditional swing, has recently been more focused on beats and beat making, hence where the name of the genre comes from. Beat swing generally retains a time signature of 4/4, - the same time signature being used in traditional swing.

The primary drum pattern incorporated in the style of beat swing includes the basic hi hat swing drum rhythm:

It can also be noted that a snare drum can be rocked and played on beats 2 and 4 - this very pattern being that which usually forms the basis of the genre. The basic snare drum sound can also be replaced with a wide variety of hundreds of other different drum sounds- such as claps, woodblocks, finger snaps, bongos, etc.... and even those derived from that of modern music styles such as hip hop, R&B, rock and roll, funk, electronic music, etc...