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This type of rhythm gets two beats in 4/4 time.
What is a half note?
This is the pitch on the 3rd space of the treble clef.
What is C?
This trumpet-player and scat-singer, known alternatively as "Satchmo", famously sang songs like "What a Wonderful World" and "Struttin' With Some Barbeque".
Who is Louis Armstrong?
When playing swung eighth notes, this is the eighth note that should get more emphasis.
What is the second eighth note or "Lah"?
This instrument, a member of the brass family, changes its pitch through one long tuning slide.
This type of rhythm gets half of a beat in 4/4 time.
What is an eighth note?
This pitch is found on the 2nd line of the bass clef, often with a flat symbol.
What is B?
One of the most famous jazz musicians and songwriters of all time, she was known as the "First Lady of Song", singing songs like "Dream a Little Dream of Me" and "Cheek To Cheek".
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This is the term for a general grouping of songs, like Pop, R&B, or Country.
What is genre?
This instrument is the larger brother of the four-string, low-pitched, electric guitar.
This type of rhythm gets 3 beats in 3/4 time.
What is a dotted half note?
This is the name of the note directly in between the treble and bass clefs.
What is middle C?
This trumpet player, most famous for the album "Kind of Blue", helped introduce the world to "Cool Jazz".
Who is Miles Davis?
Coming primarily from enslaved African-American musicians in the south, this story-telling style of music preceded what we know call jazz.
What are the blues?
One of the least in-tune instruments, you can hold down the B key in order to lower the pitch of D, E, and sometimes F.
What is the saxophone?
This type of rhythm features three equally-spaced notes within one beat in 4/4 time.
What is an eighth-note triplet?
These notations add lines onto the musical staff, allowing for notes to be written that don't exist in the standard staff.
What are ledger lines?
This pianist, bandleader, and songwriter wrote over 1,000 pieces in his lifetime, earning him a song in his honor written by Stevie Wonder.
Who is Duke Ellington?
This term, involving shifting your pitch up and down very quickly, is a technique used by singers and instrumentalists alike to add character to a long note.
What is vibrato?
This instrument reads the same pitches (in the same range) as a tenor saxophone, but is not commonly found in jazz bands.
What is a bass clarinet?
This rhythm gets the beat in 2/2 time, sometimes known as "cut time".
What is a half note?
This type of uncommon accidental raises the pitch of a note by two half steps, rather than one.
What is a double sharp?
This jazz pianist created the album "Out Of Time" in 1959, featuring songs like "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo a la Turk" that all use non-standard time signatures.
Who is Dave Brubeck?
This style of jazz, often associated with Charlie Parker, is known for lots of notes and fast tempi.
What is Be-Bop?
This group of instruments features classifications such as membranophone and idiophone (sometimes chordophone too, depending on who you ask).
What is percussion?