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== Swing Feel ==
A ''<u>swing feel'' </u> breaks down each beat into an unequal pair of durations, with the first duration long and 2nd short. This creates a feeling similar to using an upbeat to emphasize the downbeat, but for every beat rather than for a measure. A more basic explanation is that you are delaying the second of every pair of notes, usually on eighth notes. It 's usually is marked in sheet music or tab with "swing feel", then the closest interpretation:
That means two eighth notes should be played as a triplet of 3 eighth notes, with the first two beamed, or sustained. That's the same as a triplet of one quarter note and one eighth note. So rather than the beat subdivided into equal halves, the first division consumes 2/3rds of the beat and the other the remaining 1/3rd.
While the quarter-eighth triplet is the most common feel, a swing feel is not necessarily (a) strict, and (b) defined as such. Depending on what part of the song is playing and the intended effect, the player may choose to increase or decrease the swing. It can be section, phrase, or even note-dependent. Or One may find other marked swing feelsfor the duration of a piece:
e e = e. s = 3/4 + 1/4
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e e = q. q = 3/5 + 2/5 {{top}}
== Sweeps and Arpeggios ==