0 a musical note that is half as long as a crotchet --
1 a note that is typically equal to half the length of a quarter note --
His hair style resembled an eighth note on its side.
Swing rhythms are sometimes notated using a quarter and an eighth note beamed under a triplet.
It can be described as the eighth note version of what the gankogui plays.
It is in bad form to teach a student to play 3/2 polyrhythms as simply quarter note, eighth note, eighth note, quarter note.
In order of halving duration, we have: double note (breve); whole note (semibreve); half note (minim); quarter note (crotchet); eighth note (quaver); sixteenth note (semiquaver).
For example, quarter notes are expressed by the syllable "ta" while eighth note pairs are expressed using the syllables "ti-ti".
The piece has maracas playing a fast eighth note pulse, while the four organs stress certain eighth notes using an 11th chord.
Therefore, the underlying rhythmic grid to most jazz music is an eighth note triplet pattern.
