Glossary of jazz and popular music

This is a glossary of jazz and popular music terms that are likely to be encountered in printed popular music songbooks, fake books and vocal scores, big band scores, jazz, and rock concert reviews, and album liner notes.

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B-section back-beat backmasking ballad barre chord or bar chord bass bassline beat bend bin or bass bin binary bleeding, bleed, or bleed-through block chords blow boogie bootleg blue note blues board bomb break bridge broken chord brushes bubbles cabinet (cab) cadence call and response capo changes channel chicken pickin' chord chorus chromatic scale clavinet clean clean channel click track clipping clonewheel or clonewheel organ coda colosseum ending combo comping comping takes compressor condenser microphone or condenser mic cover or cover song crossfader crossover crunch cut time dead decibel (dB) demo desk DI or DI unit digital signal processing (DSP) double-time feel doubling downtuned or detuned dragging drive drop drop 1

ear candy effects unit encore (Fr) engineer fader fakebook fall falsetto feedback fiddle fill (English) flat foldback forte or (f) fortepiano (fp) fortissimo (ff) fortississimo (fff) front of house (FOH) four on the floor fuzz bass ghostwriter gig gliss half-time feel harmony vocals or harmony parts harp harpsichord homophony head honky-tonk hook horn horn section house band ignore changes inside intro J-bass jam or jam session jazz standard or standard keyboardist keyboard amp lay out lead lead bass leading note Leslie line line in line out marcato (marc.)'

roadie Roland rolled chord rushing sample or sampling scratch segue semitone session musician, session player, or session man shake sharp shred sidefills sideman or sidemen sibilance sign sit in skins slapping or slap bass snake solid-state solo break solo soli soprano standard tuning stompbox stage piano Stratocaster (Strat) Surf Ballroom subwoofer (sub) sweetening sweet spot syncopation tablature (tab) tacet take tech Tele (Telecaster) tempo tenor ticky tack tight sound timbre time track trainwreck or train wreck transcription or note-for-note solo tribute band tremolo tube amplifier or valve amplifier tubs tuner turnaround unison utility player vamp vamp till cue vanity record 'verb virtuoso vocal score or piano-vocal score voicing VU meter wah-wah pedal walking bass wall of sound weekend warrior whammy bar woodshed

As this photo shows, popular music genre bands use acoustic instruments (such as sax and drums) and electric instruments (such as electric bass), all of which are amplified through a PA system of speakers. Pictured are the Yellowjackets , a jazz-rock fusion band.
A seven-string electric guitar, the Ibanez RG7321BK
Art rock band Roxy Music performing in Toronto in 1974
A close-up of the Hammond L-100 organ, with the drawbars in the foreground
A close-up of the Hammond L-100 organ, with the drawbars in the foreground
Huge bass bins were most popular in the 1980s, but they remained in use in the 2010s in venues where powerful, deep bass is required: reggae concerts, huge dance nightclubs where house music is played, and rave -type events.
Yamaha 2403 audio mixing console (or "board") in a "live" mixing application. Each column of knobs controls the volume, tone, and other elements for a single channel (e.g. a microphone being used by a singer).
Some heavy metal electric guitarists use a large number of guitar speaker cabinets to create a powerful, loud stage sound.
The Roland VK-7 is referred to as a "clonewheel organ", because it recreates the sound of vintage tonewheel organs like the Hammond organ.
A passive DI box. It is passive because it does not need external power to operate. DI boxes which require a power source (batteries or phantom power ) are called active DI boxes.
The Ibanez Tube Screamer overdrive pedal, an effects unit with a footswitch to turn the effect on and off
The Minimoog Model D, a Moog synthesizer which was produced from 1971 to 1984.
This Hammond spinet organ shows the relatively short pedals and 13-note range used on the pedalboards of spinet organs
A team of roadies carries music gear, sets up equipment, and readies the stage for the band's show.
A Numark DM2002X Pro Master DJ mixer, which can be used for mixing records or scratching.
A sound reinforcement setup with subwoofers for the bass range (the cabinets on the floor) and full range cabinets for the mid and high frequencies (stacked on top).
The glow from four KT88 model "Electro Harmonix" brand power tubes lights up the inside of a Traynor YBA-200 guitar amplifier
VU meters on an API recording console.
Motörhead are known for the powerful "wall of sound" created by the big stacks of powerful amplifiers