There is something else included in music that is very difficult to define... It is a mysterious vapor that somehow slips in the cracks between this plane of existence and some other one. ...good musicians have the ability to conjure up more of that vapor than others. ...it is the same thing you find wherever there is love, intensity, energy, or human potential. All those good things include this same mysterious vapor that is the fabric of music.
- Pat Metheny
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Atonal
The absence of all tonality in music; the term originally came about to describe the music of Schoenberg.
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Jazz Primer: Comparing to Pop
Jazz is group of styles that may elude us self-taught guitarists for years, and seems to belong to those, who having mastered rock, pop, country ideas and concepts, are looking for new musical frontiers. So if we feel ready for a taste of jazz but don't know how to get started, or how or when might we break out from blocky, redundant and circular musical constructs to free-flowing jazz form, this tip may help. Where can we go for a working definition of jazz concepts to know what we can borrow to add color or depth, or to "jazz up" our playing?
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Published on: 02 Dec 2003
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