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About 1.3 sounds optimal to me.

• jefftk 4y ago
  Closer to 2 sounds better to me; I wonder if it's that so much of the "swung" stuff I've been playing in the last few years is really jigs (and so naturally close to 1:2)
• jollyllama 4y ago
  2.5 is the most danceable IMO
  • tzs 4y ago
    I wonder if this depends on the tempo? I can't really dance, but if I try to twitch or spasm in my seat in time with the music I find that I'm most conformable doing one movement per quarter note. The tempo is fast enough that I can't really keep up if I try to do a movement per eighth note. With the swing ratio set to 1 I find it easy to get out of phase in those sections where it has a bunch of consecutive eighth notes. The tempo is fast enough that I can't dance and count reliably at the same time, so if I get out of phase I'm stuck that way until it hits a section with longer notes. There's no way to tell if a given eighth note is the downbeat or not just from its relation to the preceding or following notes so I can't reorient myself. With higher swing ratios the downbeat note and the preceding note are grouped, and the gap between these groups is larger than the gap in the group. I can't get lost in that. If the tempo was slower, I could either count while dancing or dance to eight notes and would be fine with a swing ratio of 1.