<story><title>Friends Don&apos;t Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbeat Clapping Study</title><url>http://www.slideshare.net/ethanhein/friends-dont-let-friends-clap-on-one-and-three-a-backbeat-clapping-study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spenuke</author><text>Duke Ellington routinely gave his audiences a lesson in his inimitable style: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPcZ5ex2t-g&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=nPcZ5ex2t-g&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Harry Connick Jr. didn&amp;#x27;t bother educating his European audience with any explanation. He simply skips a beat, and then they&amp;#x27;re clapping on 2 and 4. It happens after the first sung chorus. You can see the drummer raise his hands in joy: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD3iaURppQw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=yD3iaURppQw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, of course, the great Slim Gaillard was so saturated in swing, his predominantly white 1950s television audience SPONTANEOUSLY clapped on the 2 and 4: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKdrnTTDTqo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ZKdrnTTDTqo&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewchoi</author><text>The switch happens around the 0:40 mark, for those who may have thought that they missed it (as I almost did)</text></comment>
<story><title>Friends Don&apos;t Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbeat Clapping Study</title><url>http://www.slideshare.net/ethanhein/friends-dont-let-friends-clap-on-one-and-three-a-backbeat-clapping-study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spenuke</author><text>Duke Ellington routinely gave his audiences a lesson in his inimitable style: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPcZ5ex2t-g&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=nPcZ5ex2t-g&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Harry Connick Jr. didn&amp;#x27;t bother educating his European audience with any explanation. He simply skips a beat, and then they&amp;#x27;re clapping on 2 and 4. It happens after the first sung chorus. You can see the drummer raise his hands in joy: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD3iaURppQw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=yD3iaURppQw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, of course, the great Slim Gaillard was so saturated in swing, his predominantly white 1950s television audience SPONTANEOUSLY clapped on the 2 and 4: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKdrnTTDTqo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ZKdrnTTDTqo&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tmm</author><text>How can you tell he skips a beat? Or for that matter the difference between beats 1 and 3 vs 2 and 4? Music is such a mystery to me. :&amp;#x2F;</text></comment>