Music on the timing grid: The influence of microtiming on the perceived groove quality of a simple drum pattern performance

@article{Frhauf2013MusicOT,
  title={Music on the timing grid: The influence of microtiming on the perceived groove quality of a simple drum pattern performance},
  author={Jan Fr{\"u}hauf and Reinhard Kopiez and Friedrich Platz},
  journal={Musicae Scientiae},
  year={2013},
  volume={17},
  pages={246 - 260},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145464636}
}
It is concluded that at least some styles of modern groove-oriented music are characterized by an aesthetics of “exactitude” and a groove effect independent of microtiming deviations, and consequences for the aesthetic appreciation of different styles of music are discussed.
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