page_title: Swing (jazz performance style)
hierarchical_section_title: Swing (jazz performance style)
caption_attribution_description: English: Straight versus swung rhythm in the metric hierarchy.
context_page_description: In music, the term swing has two main uses. Colloquially, it is used to describe the quality or impression or effect of a changing pattern in a propulsive rhythm created by the musical interaction between the performers, especially when the music prompts a visceral response such as foot-tapping or head-nodding, which sense is called "groove". The term, and swung note and swung rhythm, is also used more specifically, to refer to a technique that involves alternately lengthening and shortening the first and second consecutive notes in the two part pulse-divisions in a beat.
context_section_description: In music, the term swing has two main uses. Colloquially, it is used to describe the quality or impression or effect ("feel") of a changing pattern in a propulsive rhythm created by the musical interaction between the performers, especially when the music prompts a visceral response such as foot-tapping or head-nodding (see pulse), which sense is called "groove". The term, and swung note(s) and swung rhythm, is also used more specifically, to refer to a technique (most commonly associated with jazz but also used in other genres) that involves alternately lengthening and shortening the first and second consecutive notes in the two part pulse-divisions in a beat.
caption: Straight (•) versus triplet swing (◦) eighth notes in the metric hierarchy
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