Number two is swing.

Now, swing is one of the foundational principles of jazz,

and it's something that you need to listen for. These are one of the foundational principles of jazz and it's something that you

need to listen for these are one of the things we're actively listening for and and what is it

well that's a great question that nobody knows the answer to but you know it when you hear it yeah

and it's one of those things where it's it's a language that unlike say harmonic elements of jazz or melodic content of jazz,

swing, you can break down in a notated way, but it's hard to actually notate the way that

some people swing.

Yeah.

And so it's one of those things that's better felt than it is red or any experience any other way.

You have to listen to a lot of swing,

a lot of swinging musicians, and digest, internalize, remember, be able to draw up, have your own

arsenal of rhythmic vocabulary to draw from. That's the only way it works. Yeah, and I mean,

it gives you confidence. For sure. You know, you have to know this, but it's such an essential element to being able to play and understand and interact in this music, that it's just something that we're constantly putting a focus on. Now, I would just say that swing, too, I don't see that just as tang, tang to tang. No, no, no, no. As a swing beat. There's a lot of different grooves that exist within this music, some of which haven't even been invented or played yet.

But swing is more of like an attitude with... There's a lot of different grooves that exist within this music, some of which haven't even been invented or played yet.

But swing is more of like an attitude with like towards groove, I would say, that we bring as jazz players.

Yeah, I mean, I would say there's swing in all kinds of music, in reggae and bluegrass and all sorts of stuff that to me qualifies as a swing.

A swing in musician, you know what I mean so that's what

you should be listening for yeah and totally foundational which I think you said right at the

beginning very important that we that we lay this as that foundation and constantly

revisit and maintain maintain it no so this is number one for a reason, as always.

When you are soloing, when you are improvising, I mean, whether you're soloing solo, piano,

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