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Triplet · 17Held-Over Swing

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Major scale harmony · 84 BPM · The first tie in the batch: the fifth arrives on the last third of beat one and holds straight across the beat two boundary. That held-over note is what makes swing float.

C sharp; E; F sharp; E; C sharp; B; A

84 BPM · eighth-triplets, three to a beat