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52 Cards in this Set
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BASIC INFORMATION ON ALL BLUES
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MILES DAVIS
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All Blues is taken from the album...
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Kind of Blues
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Where and when was it recorded?
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It was recorded in 1959 in New York
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Miles Davis was a famous jazz...
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Trumpeteer
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Blues music originated from...
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New Orleans and the southern states of the US. It was a mix of soul music and church music of the black minorities who were being opressed.
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JAZZ VOCABULARY IN ALL BLUES
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MILES DAVIS
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The Changes mean...
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The chord sequence in a jazz piece
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The head arrangement means...
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the head is the main melody so it is the basic main melody
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What does modal jazz mean?
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Jazz music improvised off a modal scale
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What is comping?
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Comping is accompanying. Generally provided by the piano
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INSTRUMENTATION AND PLAYING TECHNIQUES IN ALL BLUES
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MILES DAVIS
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What is a sextet?
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A group of six players
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What is the frontline?
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It is the name given to solo instrumentsin a jazz ensemble
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What instruments are in the rhythm section?
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The drums, DOUBLE BASS AND PIANO
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How is the double bass played?
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Pizzicato or plucked
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The trumpet is played with a Harmon...
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Mute
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The snare drum is not played with drumsticks, but what is it played with?
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Wire brushes
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Piano uses a similar effect to tremolo, what is it called?
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Trilling
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METRE, TEMPO AND RHYTHM IN ALL BLUES
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The jazz waltz style suggests triple time, but is not. What time is it?
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6/4
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What is the tempo of the piece?
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156bpm
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6/4 literally means six crotchet beats per bar but is counted as 2x... ... beats. Known as compound duple time
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2x dotted minims
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Quavers are performed differently as...
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Swing quavers
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IMPROVISED SOLOS IN ALL BLUES
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MILES DAVIS
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What is the first improvised solo?
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The trumpet, played by Miles Davis for 48 bars
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The trumpet uses short syncopated ... centred around G
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Motifs
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It is a Mixolydian mode from which note to which note though?
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G-G
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How many octave range does the trumpet have?
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Two octave range
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Davis uses sudden dynamic changes from ... to ...
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Piano to Forte
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He uses long phrases accentuated by ... and ...
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Crescendos and diminuendos
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Who performs the solo of the alto saxophone?
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Julian "Cannonball" Adderley performed the alto saxophone for 48 bars
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The alto saxophone sounds more improvised or ...
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Virtuosic
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He uses (longer/shorter) phrases than Davis
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Longer, or more extended
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It has a two octave range but stays in the ... octave more
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Higher
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It is more angular with ... leaps
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Larger
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He has a (more/less) even tone quality
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More even
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The tenor saxophone is performed by a jazz music legend, who is he though?
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It was John Coltrane who performed the tenor saxophone part for 48 bars
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It sounds more...
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Improvised
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In general it is angular with ... leaps
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Large
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virtually ... vibrato
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no vibrato
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The piano does some improvising, who performs it though?
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Bill Evans
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The piano does not improvise for the whole 48 bars, but how long does it improvise for?
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It improvises for half the time, so 24 bars
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Evans does two different things in each hand what are they and in which hand?
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He comps in his left hand while he improvises in his right. In the second verse he proceeds to make a more complex improvisation and comping pattern
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TONALITY AND HARMONY IN ALL BLUES
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The tonality is in general G major but the 7th is changed. How is it changed?
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There is a flattened seventh to F natural
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The harmony uses more complex and extended chords, name them.
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Eb7#9
D7#9 |
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Both Eb7#9 and D7#9 are examples of extended and altered chords, explain how.
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The extended notes are the 7th and 9th
The altered are the sharp 9 |
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In bar 10 the expected chord IV in the 12-bar blues is replaced by D7#9 and Eb7#9 what is this called?
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This called chord substitution
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In bars 11-12 the chords change twice per bar, what is this and what does it signal?
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This is called the turnaround and signifies the return to the beginning
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STRUCTURE IN ALL BLUES
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MILES DAVIS
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Which instruments play 48 bars for their solo?
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The Trumpet, the Alto Saxophone and the Tenor Saxophone
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Which instrument comps and solos?
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The piano, it comps throughout the entire song but only solos for 24 bar half the time of the other instruments
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