
What That Jazz Beat Tells Us about Hearing and The Brain
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Introduction
Swing is a subgenre of jazz, but the word swing also refers to a distinctive rhythm that long outlasted the swing era. Swing rebels against a straight 50-50 meter with a prolonged first beat or down beat and a shortened second beat or off beat. In terms of feel, swing grooves, it makes you want to move your body. The results appear in communications physics.
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