It's common for jazz musicians and fans to refer to certain songs as having
"swing," indicating that the songs provoke a strong feeling, like the impulse
to tap one's foot or dance. The exact acoustic properties that give a song
swing, however, have long been thought to be undefinable. To investigate
swing, a team led by physicist Corentin Nelias delayed the downbeats and
synchronized the offbeats in jazz piano solos and asked jazz musicians to
compare the intensity of swing in each modified piece with the intensity of
swing in the original piece. They found that participants were more than
seven times likelier to characterize the modified songs as having swing
than to characterize the original versions as having swing, suggesting that
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the acoustic properties that give a song swing are not easy for jazz
musicians to manipulate.
jazz songs that feature the piano are more likely to have swing
than are jazz songs that do not feature the piano.
synchronized offbeats tend to give a song swing regardless of
whether downbeats are delayed.