#JAZZ KEYBOARD CHORD DICTIONARY FREE#

Hard Bop: The style of the late 50s, engineered by Horace Silver, Art Blakey, etc. Occurs in the intro to Chick Corea's Tones for Joan's Bones.

Half time feel: A time feel half as fast, while the chords go by in the same amount of time. Two different scales have been commonly used for this chord one with a flat 9th, the 'locrian', and one with an unflatted ninth, the latter scale being more modern. It is most often the harmony of the ii in a ii-V-I progression in a minor key. The symbol is a small O with a diagonal slash. This chord probably evolved from the IV minor 6th chord, which was common in the swing period if its sixth is taken to be the root, a half-diminished chord results. Half-diminished ( Ø ): The chord with a minor third, a lowered (diminished) fifth, and a minor seventh. Ground beat: The basic metric beat, most often in quarter-notes, whether explicitly stated or not. A Medium Groove is a tempo of, say, 112, with a slinky or funky feeling. Groove: An infectious feeling of rightness in the rhythm, of being perfectly centered. Grand Staff: The treble and bass staves together. Straight-8 time and a strong back-beat predominated.įront: 'In front' means before the top, as an intro.įront line: The horn players in a combo, those who aren't in the rhythm section. Harmonic language was simplified key feeling tended to be established by repetition rather than harmonic movement. Incorporated elements of rock into Jazz and made greater use of repetition and non-improvised passages.

#JAZZ KEYBOARD CHORD DICTIONARY FREE#

Some free Jazz was not very good, and some who played it later denounced it, but the style became an ingredient in future styles.įusion: A style developed in the late 60s by Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Chick Corea and others, partly as a reaction to the eclipse of Jazz on the music scene by rock. Sometimes two drummers and/or two bass players were used. It was originally associated with black cultural nationalism. Usually there is an implied restriction in 'free' playing preventing one from sounding as if chord changes are being used.įree Jazz: A style of the early and middle sixties, involving 'free' playing and a vehement affect. Especially, improvising without regard to the chord changes, or without any chord changes. The best is The Ultimate Jazz Fakebook.įree: Without rules. More recently a number of legal fake books have been published. This has become the standard and all Jazz musicians are expected to have a copy. Some 25 years ago the 'Real Book' appeared, out of the Berklee School of Music, with some 400 tunes in excellent calligraphy. Quite a complicated system of voicings and motivic patterns for diminished has been developed by modern players.ĭot time: A cross-rhythm based on dotted quarter notes, extending through a passage.ĭouble time: A tempo twice as fast, with the time feel, bar lines and chords moving at twice the speed.ĭouble time feel: A time feel twice as fast, so that written eighth notes now sound like quarter notes, while the chords continue at the same speed as before.Įight to the bar: Continuous eighth-note rhythm, as in boogie-woogie left hand patterns.Įxtensions: The ninth, eleventh and thirteenth of a chord.įake Book: A collection of Jazz charts, published without paying royalties and thus illegal (not in the Public Domain.) For decades, a book called '1000 Standard Tunes' circulated you can still see its grossly simplified charts, written three to a page.

There are just three different diminished scales. Often called just 'diminished' with '7th' being implied.ĭiminished Scale: A scale of 8 notes to the octave in alternating whole-steps and half-steps. If the chord tones and extensions are put together within an octave, the diminished scale results. Effective modern voicing requires using at least one extension plain ✧ chords sound remarkably old-fashioned. The extensions of a ✧ are a ninth (or whole step) above each chord tone.

Since an additional minor third on top will be the octave of the bottom note, inversions of a ✧ will have the same interval structure in other words, they will also be diminished 7th chords in their own right. See 'Alteration'.ĭiminished triad: Triad composed of two stacked minor thirds, root, minor third, and diminished fifth.ĭiminished seventh (✧): Chord composed of 4 notes, stacked in minor thirds. Said of melody or harmony using only the unaltered major (or sometimes minor) scale.ĭig: To appreciate a player's expression.ĭiminished: Lowered by a half-step.

Jazz keyboard chord dictionary