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Re: Swing Ratio

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Post by pclmulqdq »

Some common ratios since I spent a few minutes figuring these out:

* 3.0 - Dotted 8th note + 16th note played as it should. Many classical musicians don't play this pattern "sharply" enough IMO.

* 2.0 - Triplets (quarter note + 8th note inside a triplet).

* 1.5 - Beat subdivided by 5 with the first note taking 3 counts and the second note taking 2 (dotted eighth + eighth note in a 5:2 polyrhythm). Not uncommon in swing and fast jazz music.

Re: Swing Ratio

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Post by oever »

bumbledraven wrote: post #6

Apparently the swing ratio (as measured by the ride cymbal) used by professional jazz musicians varies with the tempo: Friberg & Sundström, "Preferred swing ratio in jazz as a function of tempo", SMH-QPSR (1997) http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1246291/DATASET01...

Fig 2 in https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-022-00995-z.pdf shows an analysis of swing in solos as function of tempo. At 160 bpm, soloists swing the most.

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Post by stephencanon »

None of these really swing, because swing isn’t (just) about note duration; where the accents are placed, and which notes get partially swallowed are at least as important.
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