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A notated equivalence turning even eighths into a long-short pair.
Also known as: Swung eighths, Shuffle marking
A small notated equation at the head of a jazz chart says that written even eighth notes are to be played as an uneven long-short pair. The exact ratio is not fixed and varies with tempo and style, so the marking is an instruction to a tradition rather than to a rhythm.
Instructs that written even eighth notes be played unevenly, as a longer note followed by a shorter one.
Contexts: Music
Names no exact ratio: the degree of swing varies with tempo, idiom and player, and the triplet equivalence often printed is an approximation.
Contexts: Music
A pair of note shapes joined by an equals sign, printed above the staff at the start of a piece.