Groove/Swing and 4/4 - kicks,snares and claps?

[alsgrooves]

Hi,

Someone mentioned to me you they don't tend to put any groove/swing on 4/4 beats like the kick, snare and claps. I've been playing around and for what I am trying to do (nu-disco organic grooves) it (some MPC swing) seems to sound better when snare and claps have groove pool on them at least. It sounds pretty OK with on the Kick also, - not much difference as far as I can tell. I'm using MPC 16 funkier

The overall groove definitely suffers when swing/groove isn't in the snare and clap offbeats, to my ear anyway.

I know people say it interferes with beatmatching for DJs, - but I do a bit of bedroom DJing myself and wouldn't think it would be too much of a problem unless the amount was very high.

Is there any rule of thumb (or thumbs ) here?

Thanks!
Alan

[Stromkraft]

Hi,

Someone mentioned to me you they don't tend to put any groove/swing on 4/4 beats like the kick, snare and claps. I've been playing around and for what I am trying to do (nu-disco organic grooves) it (some MPC swing) seems to sound better when snare and claps have groove pool on them at least. It sounds pretty OK with on the Kick also, - not much difference as far as I can tell. I'm using MPC 16 funkier

The overall groove definitely suffers when swing/groove isn't in the snare and clap offbeats, to my ear anyway.

I know people say it interferes with beatmatching for DJs, - but I do a bit of bedroom DJing myself and wouldn't think it would be too much of a problem unless the amount was very high.

Since when is it your responsibility some DJs can't mix? Get groovin'!

I have (different) grooves on everything and a DJ has no business mixing my kicks with someone else's. There's something called filters…

[Shift Gorden]

No rules of thumb, man - swing and groove that bad boy!