What is the meaning
of
those "jazz" terms?
Many musicians coming from classical backgrounds don't
understand the meaning of many jazz expressions. Here
is a list to help:
Intro/Outro the
beginning/ending of a tune.
Bridge or Channelusually
the middle of a standard tune; often it's the B section
of an AABA tune.
Changesthe
chords of a song. To be specific, it represents the
voice leading or the notes that are changing.
Vampa
repeating chord progression designed to set up something,
usually the beginning of a tune or the walk-on of
an act.
Rhythm Changesthe
set of chord changes taken from Gershwin's "I
Got Rhythm".
Tagusually
the last few bars of a tune, often repeated three
times. On many jazz recordings, musicians will play
a repeating tag and then solo over that.
Five Downchord
progressions that begin with a minor 7b5 chord a flat
five away from the tonic that eventually cycles to
the I chord.
Cyclecircle
of 5ths (or 4ths depending on which direction you
take).
Long Metermelodic
phrase played twice as long (ex. 2 bars = 4).
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