Which brings us to the notation part of my disagreement.
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At slower tempos, it varies- most often the swung 1/8th's will remain as triplets, but in some grooves (as SteveB pointed out) they will become even more "swung" moving towards or even becoming "dotted 1/8 & sixteenth" pairs.Īnd since in standard western musical notation, there is no such thing as a "swung 1/8th" - a rhythm whose value is both different depending on where it is placed in the beat, but can also change depending on the context and tempo in which it is used - writers since the beginning of jazz, and all the way through all of the pop/rock/blues shuffles that this jazz rhythm inspired, have struggled with how to notate it. At faster tempos, they will - in virtually every style and groove - get more and more even as the tempo increases.
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While certainly, a lot of the time and at a lot of tempos those two "swung 1/8th" are played the same as 1st and 3rd eighth note triplet - which I get is A LOT of the time, and I'm sure is what you were referring to.īut as I know you know ('cause I've heard you play all of this) - as the tempo goes to the faster or slower extremes (and depending on the type of groove/region of origin/etc) the ratio between each pair of swung 1/8ths will either contract or expand. Sorry Bermuda - I kinda have to disagree on two fronts.įirst off, isn't the basis of the shuffle rhythm really "swung" 1/8th notes? I mean, I was taught that a shuffle rhythm like any swing rhythm has only two notes per beat - the one "on" the beat and the one "off" the best.