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Description
Mind Map by B Matthews, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by B Matthews
almost 11 years ago
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Key Features of Jazz
- Frontline
- Instruments that play the melody line
- New Orleans Jazz used trumpet, clarinet and trombone
- Saxophone overtook the clarinet in popularity in the 1930s
- Saxophone overtook the clarinet in popularity in the 1930s
- New Orleans Jazz used trumpet, clarinet and trombone
- Instruments that play the melody line
- Rhythm Section
- Drums, Piano, Banjo (guitar in later
Jazz) and bass
- In early recordings, Tuba was used instead of Bass
- Sometimes left hand piano covered bass part
- Players would often fill in harmony by adding extra notes, fills and syncopated notes
- Technique - comping
- Technique - comping
- Players would often fill in harmony by adding extra notes, fills and syncopated notes
- Sometimes left hand piano covered bass part
- In early recordings, Tuba was used instead of Bass
- Drums, Piano, Banjo (guitar in later
Jazz) and bass
- Walking Bass
- Usually improvised
- 4 steady crotchets per bar
- By the 1950s Bass players were
becoming more adventurous
- Began to explore different registers
- Enhanced the changing moods of the pieces
- Enhanced the changing moods of the pieces
- Began to explore different registers
- By the 1950s Bass players were
becoming more adventurous
- 4 steady crotchets per bar
- Usually improvised
- Arrangement
- Not all Jazz is improvised
- Written arrangements improved the standards
of the ensemble in bigger bands
- Written arrangements improved the standards
of the ensemble in bigger bands
- Not all Jazz is improvised
- Improvisation
- Essential skill
- Often involved some degree of
preparation of basic ideas
- Usually based on underlying chord pattern
- Usually based on underlying chord pattern
- Often involved some degree of
preparation of basic ideas
- Essential skill
- Swing
- Well known for its exciting rhythms
- Early jazz reflected the syncopations of ragtime
- In the 1920s, they replaced
straight quavers (straight 8s) with a
more lilting style
- Notes would either be anticipated or delayed
- Notes would either be anticipated or delayed
- In the 1920s, they replaced
straight quavers (straight 8s) with a
more lilting style
- Early jazz reflected the syncopations of ragtime
- Difficult to notate
- Not everyone will agree
whether a performance is
swung or not
- Not everyone will agree
whether a performance is
swung or not
- Well known for its exciting rhythms
- Changes
- Many jazz pieces are
based on a chord pattern
known as the changes
- Others are based on
well known songs -
known as standards
- Others are based on
well known songs -
known as standards
- Many jazz pieces are
based on a chord pattern
known as the changes
- Blues notes and inflections
- Small alterations of the notes
- Small flatening of
the 3rd,5th and
7th
- Small flatening of
the 3rd,5th and
7th
- Small alterations of the notes
- Double time
- Playing in semiquavers instead of quavers
- Playing in semiquavers instead of quavers
- Tone quality
- Jazz musicians use many ways to vary the sound of
their instruments
- Attack
- Vibrato
- Breathy tone
- Mute
- Attack
- Jazz musicians use many ways to vary the sound of
their instruments
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