This document provides a summary of key elements of jazz music, including call and response, improvisation, scat, and syncopation. It presents examples of each element and tests the reader's understanding through short questions. The summary teaches that call and response involves musicians answering each other, improvisation is making up solos on the spot, scat is improvised singing, and syncopation places sounds between beats. It aims to increase the reader's knowledge of these fundamental jazz concepts.
2. Jazz is a type of music that you can dance to with the elements of Jazz. The elements of Jazz are Scat, Improvisation, Call+Response, and syncopation. Today, we will be testing your Jazz skills on these four elements. We will also be teaching you some more things about Jazz.
3. Call+response is when one instrument in Jazz plays a piece and pauses as a signal for the other instrument to play back. You can also do this with Jazz singing. Lesson 1
4. Reteach 1 Is this call+response? “ How are you?” “How are you?” Answer Key: Next slide
5. Answer Key 1 That was not call+response. This would be an example of call+response. “ How are you?” “Great!”
6. Lesson 2 Improvisation is when a Jazz musician gets to make up their own piece of music on the spot during a music performance.
7. Reteach 2 When a Jazz musician plays their own made up solo during the middle of a song, would that be improvisation? Answer Key: Next slide
8. Answer Key 2 Great job! It would be improvisation!
9. Lesson 3 Scat is kind of like improvisation. The only difference is that it is the Jazz singer that does the improvisation.
10. Reteach 3 Let's see if you have a good memory, is this scat? Zweebop-a-weebop! Answer Key: Next slide
11. Answer Key 3 Did you guess yes? If you did, you got it right!
12. Lesson 4 We have come to our last subject. Syncopation. Syncopation is a sound between a beat.
13. Reteach 4 Is this syncopation? B=Beat and S= Syncopation. B B S B B B? Answer Key: Next slide
14. Answer Key 4 No that would not be syncopation. But, this would: B B BSB B B.
15. Thank you for taking our Jazz Quiz. By: Valeria and Camden