Jazz Lingo

What are jazz musicians referring to when they talk about their "chops"?

• What are they ate for dinner

• Their technique

• Their teeth

• The chorus of a tune

What is a lick?

• A section of tune usually played between the head and the solos.

• The way you eat an ice cream.

• The main riff of the tune.

• An improvised phrase that has entered the everyday language of jazz and often describes a musicians signature phrase.

'Lay back' refers to?

• Recline on your day bed.

• Don't play.

• Play on the back side of the beat.

• When the music is rhythmically in the groove.

A fake book is?

• A book so-called because improvising used to be called "faking"

• Similar to the Real Book.

• A book that is not real.

• A book of standards and jazz originals usually consisting of just the melody and chord symbols

What is a jazz musician doing when he has a gig?

• A dance.

• A job.

• A recording.

• Practicing his or her instrument.

What is stop time

• There is no time signature.

• The tempo changes.

• During a solo, the rhythm section only plays on the 1st beat of every 2 or 4 bars.

• A solo section, where on a soloists cue, the entire rhythm section stops playing.

What is a musician doing when he says he is 'going into the shed'.

• He/she is going to hang out with friend in the back garden shed.

• He/she is going to chop wood.

• He/she is going to shut away from world and practice long and hard.

• He/she is into the groove.

What is 'a train wreck'?

• Everything goes off track.

• Someone forgets to take the repeat.

• Someone forgets to take the bridge.

• Gemma keeps talking during her solo.

What is the 'head'?

• A riff.

• The first time through the melody before the solos.

• The main melody and changes of the tune.

• An improvised phrase.

What is a 'riff'?

• Repeated horn figure, often played behind the solo.

• Repeated drum feel.

• Repeated chord changes.

• An improvised section at the end of the out chorus, often repeated.