Piano and Swing Feel

What is the hardest style of music to play?

Answers may vary depending on who you are, but I am in strong belief that Jazz is the hardest style of music to play.

All of my past posts apply to jazz; Preparation, Originality, Rhythm, and Minor/Major chords. Jazz is quite basically the mother load of music. It incorporates various feels, sounds, and rhythms. This is why Mr. Palmer introduced the swing feel last. For those who don't know, Jazz is primarily triplets. Practically every note played in jazz is in the placement of triplets. If you were to play eighth note triplets all the way through a sheet of jazz music, it is more then likely that you would of played in the spot of all written notes.

Mr. Palmer represents this by making us play eighth note triplets continuously, according to him "continue to play triplets each time three eighth notes are joined by one beam" (Palmer 142). After attempting, and completing this, I suddenly got more of a feel for swing as a whole. Now i am in the jazz band for Kentridge, and i do understand swing. But i never really thought of it in the manner of triplets. By applying my new knowledge of Jazz, it is ten times easier to play the swing feel.

Me practicing triplets by playing a B flat chord