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PIANO TEACHER HELP DESK Syncopation and Swing

ontemporary piano music at all levels includes a vast number of pieces in popular style written either with syncopated rhythms or with figurations that come alive when ‘swung’. When music places rhythmic stress on weaker beats or parts of the beat we have syncopation. When we have two-part pulse divisions – pairs of notes in

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