• STANDARD OR COMMMON

• GROUPS & ENSEMBLES• TONE COLOR MIX

• RANGE COMPLIMENTS• DYNAMIC COMPLIMENTS

• ROLE PLAYING

BASIC INSTRUMENT ROLES per style

• Style = SWING• DRUMS – Swing Rhythm Quarter notes on

Ride Cymbal 2 & 4 on Hi Hat• BASS – Walking Bass lines over Chord Changes

emphasis on root notes• Piano & Guitar – Chord Changes• Soloist – Main Melody & Improvise Solos =

new melody over chords or embellishments of original melody

• Typical Jazz : • TRIO – Rhythm section• Drums = TIME/RHYTHM/FEEL• Double Bass =TIME & ROOT NOTES• Piano or Guitar = TIME & CHORDS & LEADS• QUARTET add soloist, • QUINTET add soloist• SOLOIST = sax, trumpet, trombone, vibes, vocals, ect..• BIG BAND – ALL SECTIONS REPRESENTED• RHYTHM, WIND, BRASS, VOCALS

• **YOU TUBE dbyrkit57 ensemble examples

• QUIZ 1 REVIEW

JAZZ MUSIC THEORY BASICSMUSICAL NOTATION

(writing & reading music)

RHYTHMIC NOTATION&

MELODIC NOTATION

RHYTHM

Beat/Pulse=where is it felt divisions of 2 or 3?Examples?

Measured in BPM (beats per minute)

Speed referred to as TEMPO (how fast how slow)

• Meter ( 2 ,3, 4, 6,7, ect..) (duple, triple, quadruple Sextuple, ect…)

• Dynamic accent = to emphasize a note in the rhythm

• Syncopation = when the accented note is between beats or where you wouldn’t normally expect it

• Classical Italian tempo markings • (know at least a couple of these!)

• Largo – very slow, broad• Grave – very slow, solemn

• Adagio – slow• Andante – moderately slow, walking pace

• Moderato – moderate• Allegretto – moderately fast

• Allegro – fast• Vivace – lively

• Presto – very fast• Prestissimo – as fast as possible

• Rhythm notation• Time Signatures ¾ 4/4 6/8 • pulse – 3 or 4 (the 4/4 measure most

common)

• Rhythm notation• stems and flags• whole notes thru 16th notes equal too how

many 16ths in 4/4 measure

• Rhythm notation• dotted notes ( 1 ½ value)• rest and dotted rest• ties / triplets (3 over 2)

MELODIC NOTATIONThe KEYBOARD

-keyboard has most of the available notes or range of all instruments

-keyboard is used as basis and most musicians also play a little piano as wellstaff related to notes on keyboard

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• MELODIC NOTATION

• The Grand Staff • TREBLE & BASS CLEFS• Every Good Boy Does Fine /FACE – Treble• Good Boys Do Fine Always / All Cows Eat Grass -Bass

SCALES & KEYS

• CLEF (Treble or Bass)• Key Signature• Time Signature

• NOTES and ACCIDENTALS

Single Note MELODY LINE

CHORDS (HARMONY)

CHORD SYMBOLS

THE SCORE

• Individual parts• The conductors Score

• Lead Sheets

THE LEAD SHEET

• What time Signature?

• Duple or Triple?

• Any Signatures?

• Any Accidentals?

• Ties or other?

• How Many Chords Symbols?

• How Many Bars?

• Form?

• HOMEWORK 2 notation