The Scotch Snap is everywhere in modern hip hop - a metrically accented sixteenth note followed by a dotted eighth note. Why is it everywhere? And where did it come from?
The answer lies in how American speak english.
A Study of Rhythm in London: Is Syllable-timing a Feature of Multicultural London English?
Philip Tagg’s 1 hour documentary on the Scotch Snap!
Another fantastic lecture by Philip Tagg if you want to get into this stuff
Music and the Brain: The Music of Language and the Language of Music
Music-Language Correlations and the “Scotch Snap”
David Bruce Composer: How the way you TALK affects the music you write
PBS Soundfield - How Trap Music Took Over
Les “SCOTCH SNAPS“ de Lil Wayne à Purcell [ANALYSE DE MONA LISA]
The Scotch Snap from Strathspey to Rap - Wayne Marshall/wayneandwax
The Origins of Strathspey
Rhythm in the speech and music of jazz and riddim musicians
Perception and acquisition of linguistic rhythm by infants
A Comparison of Rhythm in English Dialects and Music
African Banjo Playing!
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EXAMPLES OF SCOTCH SNAP IN HIP HOP/POP (used in this video, there are way, way more)
Soulja Boy - Pretty Boy Swag
Meek Mill - I B On Dat Feat. Nicki Minaj, French Montana & Fabolous
Beyoncé - Drunk in Love
Ariana Grande - 7 Rings
Ariana Grande - thank u, next
Childish Gambino - Worldstar
Bazzi - Mine
Lizzo - Juice
Wifisfuneral - It Don’t Matter
Cardi B, Bad Bunny, J Balvin - I Like It
Zedd, Marren Moris, Grey - The Middle
ALSO FEATURED
J Balvin, William William - Mi Gente
Vybz Kartel - Come Home
Kery James - Mouhammad Alix
SCOTCH SNAP EXAMPLES in Scottish Music
Siobhan Miller
Douglas Lawrence
Andrea Beaton
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