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Old October 6th, 2006
Fretsource Fretsource is offline

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Swing is a rhythmic effect. When you have pairs of notes of the same duration, such as a sequence of eighth notes, instead of playing them equally long (as written), you play the first of each pair of notes a little longer and the other a little shorter. The total duration is the same but the individual notes are played as 'long - short, long - short etc'


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