Jazz terms

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Comping
Playing a musical accompaniment, usually chords, in this style e.g. a chord a beat
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Portamento
Vocal slide/glissando
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**** singing
Singing without words/using nonsense syllables
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Stride bass
Baseline that is on the beat
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Frontline
The instruments that solo, play the melody and accompaniments e.g. trumpet, sax, trombone
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Rhythm section
The instruments that keep the beat and play the baseline e.g. bass, drums, piano
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Swing rhythms
Long-shot/dotted quaver-semiquaver
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Coda
The final chorus/end to the piece. Usually an extension of the previous chorus/12 bar blues
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Cadenza
A pause for the band while the soloist shows off in a virtuoso style
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Virtuoso
Technical playing
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Substitution chords
Using a chord in place of another in a chord progression. This substituting chord tends to be related to the first.
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Blues note
Flattened 3rd or 7th part of the scale
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12 bar blues
The repeated pattern of chords
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Lip trill
Trill by moving the lip not the valves on a trumpet (Or any brass)
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Improvisation
Not having anything written and making it up
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Vibrato
Slight moving of the note to create a warm sound
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Card 2

Front

Vocal slide/glissando

Back

Portamento

Card 3

Front

Singing without words/using nonsense syllables

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Baseline that is on the beat

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

The instruments that solo, play the melody and accompaniments e.g. trumpet, sax, trombone

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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