Jazz accompaniment, or “comping”, is a difficult artwork type. Bebop made use of a number of relatively widespread chord progressions, such as blues (at base, I-IV-V, but often infused with ii-V movement) and ‘rhythm modifications’ (I-VI-ii-V) – the chords to the Thirties pop customary ” I Bought Rhythm” Late bop also moved in the direction of prolonged types that represented a departure from pop and show tunes.

Bebop scales are traditional scales with an added chromatic passing note; 127 bebop also makes use of “passing” chords, substitute chords , and altered chords New forms of chromaticism and dissonance have been launched into jazz, and the dissonant tritone (or “flatted fifth”) interval became the “most vital interval of bebop” 128 Chord progressions for bebop tunes were often taken straight from popular swing-era songs and reused with a brand new and more advanced melody and/or reharmonized with extra advanced chord progressions to form new compositions, a practice which was already nicely-established in earlier jazz, however got here to be central to the bebop fashion.

Jazz musicians started to improvise on uncommon instruments, such because the jazz harp ( Alice Coltrane ), the electrically amplified and wah-wah pedaled jazz violin ( Jean-Luc Ponty …

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