STRING THEORY

I GOT RHYTHM, PART 19

Quarter-note triplets

learned how to count and play eighth-note triplets, for which you subdivide a beat into three equally spaced notes, as indicated by an Italic . We then saw how you can create swing eighth notes, or swing eighths, by tying the middle note of the triplet to the first note. This gives you that lopsided “long-short-long-short” sound that, when paired with accents on beats 2 and 4, produces the classic “blues shuffle” feel, or groove..