Swing Rhythms
A swing rhythm can be created by tying together the first and second notes of a triplet. There are several different ways of writing swing rhythms. To understand them it is worth using one musical example written in various ways. First play example 79 which contains eighth note triplets.
Example 80 has the first and second notes of the triplet group tied. This gives the example a swing feel.
The two eighth note triplets tied together in example 80 can be replaced by a quarter note.
To simplify notation, it is common to replace the 6 with z, and to write at the start of the piece as 6 = z illustrated in example 82.
Examples 79, 80 and 81 sound exactly the same but are just written differently.
Here are some examples which contain swing rhythms. Remember, although the eighth notes may be written as normal, they are played as swing eighths as indicated by the symbol before the start of the example.
This example uses a different form of notation. It is very common to find triplets in music which contains swing eighth notes.
Here is a full solo which combines triplets and swing eighth notes.
