On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 09:08 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
At 11:35 PM -0400 6/02/03, Darcy James Argue wrote:Notating swing rhythms in 12/8, or as dotted-eighth-sixteenth figures (especially) is about as close to genuine swing as the following notation would be to a genuine Viennese waltz feel:
quarter - eighth rest - eighth note - quarter note.
Oops. Maybe you meant:
eighth - dotted quarter - quarter.
You have to admit, the example I gave isn't very close to a Viennese feel either...
- Darcy
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