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Swing
Swing is a jazz-related style and rhythmic feel where notes are played with a characteristic long-short pattern.
Level relevance: introduced at Nat 4; tagged for every later level where the same concept remains useful.
Explanation
In Music Technology, swing can be recognised in listening and can also affect MIDI quantisation, groove settings, drum programming, and performance feel.
Topics
Styles and genresListeningTiming
Curriculum statusofficial concept
Review statusdraft
Sources
- National 5 Music Technology course specification, May 2023, version 3.0 · accessed 2026-07-08
Used for the National 3, National 4, and National 5 technology and music concept tables.