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  2. Four note group - Wikipedia

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    In music, four note group patterns, alternately called "four-note digital patterns" [1] or simply "four note patterns", are one of many ways to formulate improvised solos in jazz. "Four-Note Grouping is an improvisation technique that uses major and minor triads along with specific passing notes as a means of generating lines.

  3. Impro-Visor - Wikipedia

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    Rendering Leadsheet Notation. Impro-Visor saves lead sheets in a textual notation, [1] and lead sheets may be created from that notation as well as by point-and-click.The notation was designed to be friendly to the jazz musician, by resembling directly what appears on the lead sheet staff.

  4. Jazz improvisation - Wikipedia

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    Jazz improvisation by Col Loughnan (tenor saxophone) at the Manly Jazz Festival with the Sydney Jazz Legends. Loughnan was accompanied by Steve Brien (guitar), Craig Scott (double bass, face obscured), and Ron Lemke (drums). Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts in a performance of jazz ...

  5. Outside (jazz) - Wikipedia

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    The term outside is commonly used by jazz musicians playing in a post-bop idiom, but despite its frequent use in musicians’ jargon there is no set or standardized definition for it. As the term is commonly understood, outside is not a direct synonym to terms such as free improvisation , polytonality or atonality but a musical phenomenon in ...

  6. Rhythm changes - Wikipedia

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    In a jazz band, these chord changes are usually played in the key of B ♭ [7] with various chord substitutions.Here is a typical form for the A section with various common substitutions, including bVII 7 in place of the minor iv chord; the addition of a ii–V progression (Fm 7 –B ♭ 7) that briefly tonicizes the IV chord, E ♭; using iii in place of I in bar 7 (the end of the first A ...

  7. Bebop scale - Wikipedia

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    The bebop major scale is derived from the Ionian mode (major scale) and has a chromatic passing note added (a ♯ 5) between the 5th and 6th degrees of the major scale. . Adding the ♯ 5 note to the seven-note major scale allows the chord tones 1, 3, 5 and 6 (a major 6th chord) to land on on-beats when the scale is played sequen

  8. Melodic pattern - Wikipedia

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    Simple melodic pattern. Play ⓘ Melodic sequence on the lines "Send her victorious," and "Happy and glorious," from "God Save the Queen" Play ⓘ In music and jazz improvisation, a melodic pattern (or motive) is a cell or germ serving as the basis for repetitive pattern. It is a figure that can be used with any scale.

  9. Sheets of sound - Wikipedia

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    Sheets of sound was a term coined in 1958 by DownBeat magazine jazz critic Ira Gitler to describe the new, unique improvisational style of John Coltrane. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Gitler first used the term on the liner notes for Soultrane (1958).