: What does "fly swatter" mean in jazz? I play a jazz song called "Fly's last boogie" and in the notes there's a star with a description "fly swatter on four". Does it mean I should literally hit with a fly swatter or is this

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Only clue I have is that drummers use 'fly swatters' aka brushes. It seems odd that the tune needs a brush stroke, so to speak, on 4, but I don't know what happens on the rest of the bar, never having met or played this piece. For once, Google knows as little as I !