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Jazz has five main elements that make it up. These are the five.
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Syncopation
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Syncopation is a rythmic effect produced when stress is shifted from strong beats
to weaker beats. On regular music beats on 1&3 are the strong beats, and 2&4 are the weake beats. In Jazz music, beats
1&3 are the weak beats, and 2&4 are the strong beats. This makes Jazz music sound different from regular music
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Tamber
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Tamber is the use of mutes, tools that are put in the horn of some brass instruments, to create
a distorted sound depending on what type of mute is being used. Mutes are also said to bend sound. In Jazz music, the instruments
are trying to imitate human voices, and the use of mutes helps. There are three different kinds if mutes. These are the straight
mute, the cup mute, and a plunger type mute.
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Improvisation
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Improvisation
is said to be the most important element of Jazz. Improv is when musical ideas are made up spontaneously, or on the spot,
during composition. This is hard to do because the musician has to come up with the idea on what he/she are gonna play next,
and it has to make sense.
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Form
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The form of Jazz is called the "Head Arangements". The
form goes Intro, then to the head (also known as melody) then some Solos, and then the Head is repeated
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Harmony
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Harmony is more complex rythem with simultaneous musical notes in a chord. It gives the song
a different sound to it, and makes it more interesting.
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