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Swung quavers at 160 beats a minute

Four beats of quaver pairs at 160 to the minute, drawn on a millisecond axis, under three readings of what a swung quaver is. The straight and triplet readings are the two the notation offers; the third is what the constant-short-note model predicts a player produces at this tempo, a ratio of 2.75 to one. The short note is 100 milliseconds long in every case where the model applies.

Drawn above with its standard settings, which is almost never how an essay draws it: an essay states the numbers it is arguing about, so the figure a reader meets there is about that argument rather than about the drawing in general. Every option a placement passes is checked against the ones this function actually reads, because an option it does not read is silently ignored and the figure quietly draws what is above instead.

It makes a noise. 6 of its 6 placements carry sound, built from the same numbers as the drawing, offering these buttons: measured at 110 bpm, measured at 160 bpm, measured at 240 bpm, measured at 260 bpm, measured at 320 bpm, straight, triplet — 2:1.

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How much swing there is, against how fast the music goes. The ratio of the long note to the short note of a swung pair, as a function of tempo, derived from the finding that the short note holds a roughly constant hundred milliseconds. The notated readings are horizontal lines, and each is correct at exactly one tempo. Above about three hundred beats a minute the ratio reaches one and the swing has gone.

Swing is a ratio, and it is not two to one

Swung quavers are notated as a triplet figure, which is a ratio of two to one. Measurements of what drummers actually play give anything from three and a half to one down to one to one, and which of those it is depends almost entirely on the tempo.

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