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Quavers are usually 'even', that is, all the same length. In swing time, or shuffle time, the quavers/eighth notes are uneven, in a long-short-long-short pattern. One way to think of this is that two quavers will sound the same as a crotchet (quarter-note) and quaver within a triplet.

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