Swing Rhythms
A swing rhythm can be created by tying together the first and second notes of an eighth note triplet. Play example 32 which contains triplets.
Example 33 has the first and second notes of each triplet group tied. Do not play the second note of the triplet group. Play the first and third notes only. This gives the example a "swing feel".
The two eighth notes in the triplets tied together in example 34 can be replaced by a quarter note.
To simplify notation, it is common to replace the zwith 6, and to write at the start of the piece, 6 = z as illustrated in example 35.
The previous three examples sound exactly the same, but are just written differently.
Class Sessions
1- Shuffle in the Key of G
2- Using Ties
3- Improvisation
4- Chord Inversions
5- Blues Using Inversions
6- Chord Numbers
7- Broken Chords
8- Grace Notes
9- New Notes, Keys and Rhythms
10- The Key of G
11- Chords and Blues Notes
12- Broken Chords in G
13- The Blues Scale in G
14- Two Octave Blues Scale
15- Seventh Chords
16- Blues Using 7th Chords
17- Mixing Chords and Scales
18- New Orleans Rhythms
19- More New Orleans Style Blues
20- Combining Melodies and Accompaniment
21- Left Hand Chords
22- Blue Notes
23- The Blues Scale
24- 12 Bar Blues Using the Shuffle Rhythm
25- Using the Blues Scale
26- The 12 Bar Blues
27- Left Hand Accompaniment
28- Blues Scale Riffs with Accompaniment
29- The Major Chord
30- INTRODUCTION
31- Blues Rhythms, New Sounds
32- The Triplet
33- Blues Runs Using Triplets
34- Swing Rhythms
35- Enharmonic Notes
36- The 7th in the Left Hand Part
37- New Orleans Rhythm in G
38- G<sup>7</sup> Chord Inversions
39- Riffs
40- Section 1 Summary
41- The Turnaround
42- The Shuffle
43- The C<sup>7</sup> Chord
44- The D<sup>7</sup> Chord
45- The F<sup>7</sup> Chord