SWING
Swing has multiple meanings. It is a time feel and a style of music. This page will address swing as a time feel. The distance between strong beats and weak beats are the same in straight time feels. Weak beats are
8th Note Swing
Sixteenth note triplet subdivision divides the beat into six equal parts. The counts are named according to their position within the beat.
The counts for eighth notes and eighth note triplets are contained within sixteenth note triplet subdivision. You should practice feeling and performing eighth notes and eighth note triplets while tapping and/or saying the syllables for sixteenth note triplets.
Sixteenth Note Swing
Sixteenth note triplet subdivision can be used when writing and playing drum grooves. For these patterns, the hihat plays most if not all of the subdivisions and the kick may have attacks on different parts of the beat.
The groove above has the hihat playing on all of the sixteenth note subdivisions with the snare on the back beat and the kick on 1, the + of three, and the pl of four.