[LAU] drum notation 3-beat vs 4-beat

Daniel Worth pipemanmusic at gmail.com
Sun Aug 31 13:21:30 EDT 2008


I think what you mean is swung eighth notes. Indeed they are eighth note
triplets played in 4/4 however the first two eighth note triples of each
subdivision are tied or dotted making there duration combined. This gives
the swing feel you hear in jazz or blues.

Daniel Worth
www.opensourcemusician.libsyn.com
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