Swing feel

[dwest2419]

Greetings my fellow guitar players! I want to talk about swing feel. In this video, this guitar player has an excellent technique. I would love to swing those notes like this guy in the video. But from the looks of things I can see he gets his playing from George Benson a lot. Im just starting to get into swing feel because I love jazz music a lot because it has a smooth sound to it. But anyway, anyone learn about swing feel and who did you look up to, to incorporate swing feel into your playing?

Swing feel

[gtrdave]

Swing is just another style of groove or a way to accent notes and beats over a measure.
I first picked it up from some of the southern rock bands that I used to listen to. They played sort of a hard rock boogie-woogie groove in some of their songs (Whisky Rock-a-Roller by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Big Apple by Molly Hatchet, Jukin' by Atlanta Rhythm Section).
Later on I listened to a lot of Glenn Miller and other big band-era swing bands. THAT is the source of swing in modern music.

[SketchMan3]

There is a wide array of grooves you can use for a swing feel. You can do dotted-8th swing, triplet swing, dotted 16th swing...