Chords for HOW TO ELECTRO SWING

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.
Now what exactly is swing?
Swing is a lot like aesthetic.
Its [Gb] interpretations of it are varied from person to person.
[Abm] Benny Goodman, also known as the king of swing,
defined [Ebm] swing as the free speech [Abm] of music.
His contemporary, Tommy Dorsey,
who was actually just Benny [Eb] Goodman with a trombone,
[Abm] defined swing [Eb] as sweet and hot at the same time.
Very much like [Gb] my signature brand,
[Ab] Frank [Eb] Javsi brand ice cream sriracha [Abm] mix. _ _
Louis Armstrong said it best on Bing Crosby's [Eb] radio show,
when he said,
We used to call it syncopation,
then called it ragtime,
then the [Dbm] blues,
then [Eb] jazz.
Now it's swing.
[Abm] Ha ha, white folks, y'all show is a [Dbm] mess.
In technical terms, swing is a [Gb] rhythm
in which a beat is [Eb] separated into a [Abm] long short pattern,
which sounds very much like this.
Do [Eb] dat.
Or like [Abm] this.
_ [C] _ _ _
[G] So this is what swing is all about.
[B] _ _ _
_ I just keep getting faster.
[Abm] Swing music evolved from jazz music
when America got super depressed and poor in the 1930s.
This style of music also [Eb] birthed the jitterbug,
[Abm] which is not a phone for old people,
but a popular form of dance among the black community.
One can [Eb] even say swing [Abm] culture mirrors
that of the whip the [Eb] nay nay vine culture of today,
and that the world is based on cycles, but whatever.
Swing music began to [Abm] decline in popularity during World War II
because America was like,
Hey, everyone go fight.
[Eb] And since the only [Ab] weapons musicians were good [Abm] at using
made wiggly air,
a lot of them didn't return [Eb] home.
But hey, we got rock [Dbm] and roll out of it, I guess.
Another [Abm] reason for swings decline
was the 1942 and 1948 musician strike
where industry musicians decided to go [Ebm] on strike
and not [Abm] record for not getting paid fair royalties.
Swing lay dormant,
living on [Eb] old dusty records and niche [Abm] clubs for the next 50 years.
That wasn't until the swing revivals began taking place.
During the 1990s, the swing [Bbm] revival began
[E] with such acts as [Ab] Big Bad Voodoo Daddies
and [Abm] the Cherry Poppin Daddies
began releasing music [E] inspired by that [Ab] swing rhythm.
What about the mommies?
[Abm] Films such as 1994's The Mask
and Jean Favreau's 1996 classic [Abm] Swingers
became major hits,
bringing [Bbm] swing vibes back into the mainstream.
In fact, the Cherry Poppin [Eb] Daddies
performed during the halftime at Super Bowl XXXIII
and right after the game,
the first episode of Family Guy aired.
Coincidence?
I think not.
During [D] the 90s, hip-hop and house musicians
began [Eb] sampling old swing records,
creating [B] what we know now as swing house.
Then in the [Eb] early 2000s,
that sampling got electrified
and turned into [Ab] what we know as electro swing.
[Eb] Electro swing was made popular by musical acts
such [Ab] as the French band [Abm] Caravan Palace
with their [Dbm] vintage yet modern arrangements
and [Abm] producers like Austrian-born Paravov Stellar.
Electro swing [Dbm] hit superstardom when in [Eb] 2010,
a collaboration [Gb] between Australian [Abm] band Yolanda Be Cool
and producer D-Cup created the track
We Speak No [Ebm] Americano,
which sampled [Abm] a 1956 Italian swing track,
reaching number one internationally.
In this video tutorial,
I will show you how to sample a swing song of your own
[Ebm] and turn it into some electro [Abm] swing.
Now for this video tutorial,
I will be skipping FL Studio
because I'm lacking the inspiration.
[Bbm] Instead, I will show you [Abm] how to make electro [Bbm] swing
using [Ebm] my video editor of [Abm] choice, Sony [Abm] Vegas. _
Find [Bbm] yourself a swing [E] song.
Since YouTube [B] is the medium,
I shall be [Bb] projecting my art.
YouTube [Bbm] is a great place to find [Abm] source material.
[Ab] I also learned [Abm] if you clicked a video with music in it
and there [Db] isn't that weird Google [Dbm] Music ID at the [Abm] bottom,
you can literally rip the music
and not fear for a copyright strike.
Well, at the [Eb] time I made this video,
I don't know if in the future
they're going to do something else,
but that's just the thing I found out that you could do.
So I'm going to rip an MP3 of Duke Ellington's [Abm] famous piece.
[Cm] It don't [G] mean a thing if you're on the [E] swing.
You do that, you die, do that, you die.
[Bbm] Now that we have an MP4,
I'm going to place it in my video [Bbm] editor like this. _
Step two, set up your timeline for music.
I tend to think of video editing a lot like music.
It's all about rhythm and flow.
First, go to video [F] properties, then select [F] ruler.
This is where we will measure [Eb] the time of our video.
[Ebm] Then select [Bbm] measure and beats.
Since house is [C] roughly 120 beats per minute,
[F] our tempo is default.
Now we can see in our timeline,
everything is ruled out [Bbm] in music beats. _
Step three, this is the fun part,
finding a sample to loop.
Once you find a loop that can loop perfectly,
cut yourself a video still.
Next, right click the audio and go to properties.
Since we are time manipulation wizards from the future,
all you have to do is warp the audio.
To do this, under time stretch and pitch shift,
select elastic, which is French for aesthetic.
Now stretch the loop into a four beat section
[F] and throw in an EDM [Eb] thump kick to it.
And now you [Db] have an electro house [Bbm] video.
Step four, now that we have a quick electro swing video,
it's time to add some EDM effects to make it super modern.
To do this, I found some gifts from the internet
that are extra flashy and use the chroma key
over the old footage and mix them together.
So I hope you [A] enjoy.
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_ [Gb] Don't [B] feel a thing, if you ain't [Gb] got that thing.
[B] _ _ [E] _ _ [Db] _ _ [B] _
[Gb] There don't need a thing, [G] all you gotta [Bm] do is play.
[Db] _ _ [E] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
[A] Makes no difference if it's [D] sweet or hot. _
[Eb] Just give that rhythm everything [Ab] you got.
[A] _
_ [Gb] Don't feel a thing, [Eb] if you ain't [Gb] got that thing.
[B] _ _ _ [E] Don't feel a thing, if you ain't got that thing.
There [Gbm] don't [Db] need a thing, all you gotta do is [B] play.
[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] Makes no difference if it's sweet [B] or hot. _
[Eb] Just give that rhythm everything [Ab] you got.
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_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
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[Db] _ _ _ [Gb] And that is how I make [Bbm] electro swing house.
[C] If you're curious to hear some more music,
just [Dbm] YouTube some swing house [F] playlist.
This music [Bbm] really comes together
because it's basically old-timey dance music
mixed with new-timey dance music.
If you wanna support my channel,
check out my bandcamp for some of my music.
You can get it for free or for money.
So thanks for watching and suggest me some new music
if you want me to.
I love you guys.
I mean, there's a lot of guys in my demographic.
It's 90% dicks, 10% other.
So suggest me music that you want me to cover.
Show me things on my social medias.
I love you guys so much.
Let me rub my mustache against the microphone.
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