6.1 EXAMINATION ONE STUDY GUIDE

This study guide covers the basic instruments, styles, terms and concepts used in jazz music. Professor Yeager's internet materials, based on his recordings and lecture descriptions from "The Jazz Orchestra: From Inside Out", are used to learn how to identify the instruments, rhythmic styles, musical concepts, terms, and compositions demonstrated in these materials.

(Examination 1 is structured in the following groupings...)

Questions 1-4 / Identify the soloing woodwind instrument:
  1. Soprano Saxophone
  2. Alto Saxophone
  3. Tenor Saxophone
  4. Flute
Questions 5-7 / Identify the soloing brass instrument:
  1. Trumpet
  2. Flugelhorn
  3. Trombone
Questions 8-10 / Identify the soloing rhythm section instrument:
  1. Piano
  2. Guitar
  3. Bass
Questions 11-15 / Identify the isolated drum sound:
  1. Ride Cymbal
  2. Hi-Hat
  3. Snare Drum
  4. Tom-Toms
  5. Bass Drum
Questions 16-18 / Identify the rhythm section instrument in an accompanying role:
  1. Drums
  2. Comping Guitar
  3. Walking Bass
Questions 19-22 / Identify the rhythmic style:
  1. Swing
  2. Swing with Brushes
  3. Shuffle
  4. Latin Samba
Questions 23-27 / Identify the rhythmic style:
  1. Latin Samba (on Hi-Hat)
  2. Ballad
  3. Rock/Fusion
  4. Funk
  5. Quasi-Shuffle (in 12/8 feel)
Questions 28-30 / Identify the musical concept:
  1. Counterpoint
  2. Voicing Across Sections
  3. Tutti/Shout Chorus
Questions 31-34 / Identify the musical concept:
  1. Soli
  2. Double-Time/Half-Time
  3. Stop-Time
  4. Ostinato
Questions 35-38 / Identify the isolated section of instruments in this Tutti/Shout Chorus:
  1. Rhythm
  2. Saxophones
  3. Trombones
  4. Trumpets
Questions 39-42 / Identify the title of the following composition:
  1. "Don't Make Noise"
  2. "Tattoo"
  3. "Twilight Train"
  4. "Sepulveda Shuffle"
Questions 43-46 / Identify the title of the following composition:
  1. "Many Happy Returns"
  2. "Moment to Moment"
  3. "Cindy's S.S."
  4. "Samba Deez, Samba Doze"
Questions 47-50 / Be able to define any of the following musical terms (to be selected from):
  • Improvisation
  • Counterpoint
  • Voicing Across Sections
  • Tutti/Shout Chorus
  • Soli
  • Double-Time/Half-Time
  • Stop-Time
  • Ostinato