| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Half-Whole Approach | pick your chord tones, land half-note before the tone then hit the note two steps above then hit the chord tone. Repeat on next chord tone |
| Chord tone | 1,3,5, and sometimes 7 |
| Notes in C-7 chord | C, Eb, G, Bb |
| notes in F# diminished (fully) | F#, A, C, Eb |
| diminished chords | stack of minor 3rd |
| augmented chords | stack of major 3rd |
| composition of Major scale | whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half |
| composition of minor scale | whole-half-whole-whole-half-whole-whole |
| most common scale to use over a __-b9 chord (__minor flat 9 chord) | half- whole scale |
| most common scale to use over a diminished chord | whole- half scale |
| all the modes (in order) | ionian, dorian, phyrgian, lydian, mixolydian, aeolian, locrian |
| key of most trumpets | Bb |
| key of flutes | C |
| key of Tuba | C |
| key of Clarinet | Bb |
| key of French Horn | F |
| feet of tubing in a trumpet | 9 |
| feet of tubing in a flute | 2 |
| feet of tubing in a tuba | 18 |
| feet of tubing in a french horn | 12 feet |
| standard tuning frequency | 440Hz |
| ratio of octave to octave frequency | 1:2, 2:4 (it doubles in frequency) |
| genre of Dream Theater | progressive metal |
| genre of Radiohead | progressive rock |
| genre of plain white tees | mainstream shit |
| genre of vivaldi | classical |
| genre of Tchlaisvosky | classical |
| genre of metallica | metal |
| genre of Indica Trichome | psychadellic and progressive rock |
| genre of Redemption | metal |
| genre of Rush | classic rock |
| genre of Jethro Tull | classic rock |
| genre of Jimi Hendrix | rock |
| tuning of a 4 string bass guitar | E A D G |
| tuning of a regular six string guitar | E A D G B E |
| the two knobs on the side of a keyboard are: | pitch bend and modulation |
| the envelope on a keyboard change and affect the: | reverb, cutoff, attack, resonance |
| timbre | overall sound or quality: anything about a sound that is not pitch |
| improvisation | making up music on the spot. |
| free playing | improv but without chord changes or form. Completely made up on the spot no prior planning or anything |
| Jordan Ruddess | keyboardist of dream theater. AMAZING progressive rock keyboardist has an even better solo album: The Road Home LISTEN TO IT NOW!!!! |
| ELP | emerson, lake, and palmer. A progressive rock band with emerson on keys. Well known in the 80's |
| sterotypical asian | antisocial and can't drive but has an extremely nice car |
| Meaning of Jazz | sweet meaning good history check it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_%28word%29 |
| Jaco Pastorius | Jazz Basist great, admired and praised around the world died of the usual drug overdose. Fretless bass. One out of four bass player to be voted the greatest bass player of all time, along with Charlie Parker and jazz greats. But only electric bass player out of the four. Amazing cover of Donna Lee |
| Victor Wooten | electric bass player (fretted) plays with his solo group Bella Fleck and the Flecktones |
| Roy Wooten | "Future Man" invented a keyboard based on the periodic table of elements and each note is somehow associated with that element. Also invented the "drumatar" a drum midi-controller mounted on a guitar and he plays that quite often with complex polyrhythms and fills that anybody with drumsticks would die to learn |
| Name that band- "Carry on my Wayward Son" | Kansas |
| Name that band- "The Final Countdown" | Europe |
| Name that band- "YYZ" | Rush |
| Name that band- "Every Summer Night" | Pat Metheny |
| Name that band- "Sellout" | Reel Big Fish |
| Kevin Moore | first keyboardist of Dream theater, even better than jordan rudess |
| Eldar | some jazz pianist, 18 years old, extremely fast, nominated by Winston Marsalis to play for the opening of Rose Hall in New York |
| Name that artist- "'Round Midnight" | Thelonius Monk |
| name the inverse of a perfect 4th | perfect 5th |
| name the inverse of a tritone | tritone |
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