Jazz Concepts

Forms and Structure : Genres : Instruments : Melody and Harmony : Rhythm and Meter : Scales : Styles and Performance Techniques

Help your students understand and recognize the elements of jazz!

Prepared under the direction of Scott DeVeaux and recorded exclusively for Jazz by John D'Earth and the Free Bridge Quintet, the Jazz Concepts studio recordings feature over 100 audio and video demonstrations, available in streaming and downloadable formats from StudySpace, the student website.

Jazz Concepts include demonstrations of:

Forms and Structure	Genres
Ballad Call & Response Foundation Layers Phrase Variable Layers	Bebop Blues Jazz Latin Jazz Modal Jazz

Instruments	Percussion instruments	Mutes
Alto Sax Baritone Sax Bass Bass Clarinet Clarinet Electric Bass Flugelhorn Flute Piano Soprano Sax Tenor Sax Trumpet	Bass Drum Brushes Clave Bell Crash Cymbal Drum Kit Drum Mallets Floor Tom High-Hat Rack Tom Ride Cymbals Snare Drum	Cup Mute Harmon Mute Plunger Mute Stem Mute Straight Mute

Melody and Harmony	Rhythm and Meter
Block Chords Blue Third Cadence Cadenza Countermelody Homophonic Melodic Paraphrase Motive Pedal Point Polyphonic Texture Polyphony Quartal Harmony Slash Chords Tonic	3/4 Meter Afro-Latin Rhythm Bossa Nova Duple Meter Funk Rhythm Hip-Hop Rhythm Mambo Rhythm Meter Reggae Rhythm Rhythmic Layers Rubato Samba Rhythm	Steady Rhythm Straight 8th Notes Swing 8th Notes Swing Rhythm Syncopation / Backbeat Triple Meter Uneven, "Speech Rhythm" Upbeat

Scales	Styles and Performance Techniques
Chromatic Scale Diatonic (Major) Scale Dorian Mode and Scale Pentatonic Scale Phyrgian Scale Whole Tone Scale	Bass line / Walking Bass Bent Notes Breaks False Fingering Half Valve Improvisation	Multiphonics Phrasing Riffs / Ostinato Riffs Saxophone Growl Slap Bass Stop-Time Trumpet Growl

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