Lead sheet, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 62 relations: Academy Awards, Accompaniment, Altered chord, Arrangement, Bassline, Berklee College of Music, Black market, Blues, Broadway theatre, Chas. H. Hansen Music Corp., Chord (music), Chord chart, Chord notation, Chord progression, Comping (jazz), Copyright, Cue (theatrical), Deep Purple, Electronic publishing, Entertainment law, Extended chord, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Grammy Awards, Harmony, Head (music), Index card, Jam session, Jazz, Jazz guitarist, Jazz improvisation, Jazz piano, Jazz standard, Lyrics, Melody, Music industry, Music royalties, Musical improvisation, Musical notation, Nightclub, Ogg, Photocopier, Ralph Patt, Real Book, Real Book (album), Riff, Rise Up Singing, Roman numeral analysis, Sheet music, Singing, Smoke on the Water, ... Expand index (12 more) »

2. Jazz techniques

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

See Lead sheet and Academy Awards

Accompaniment

Accompaniment is the musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece.

See Lead sheet and Accompaniment

Altered chord

An altered chord is a chord that replaces one or more notes from the diatonic scale with a neighboring pitch from the chromatic scale. Lead sheet and altered chord are jazz terminology.

See Lead sheet and Altered chord

Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Lead sheet and arrangement are musical notation.

See Lead sheet and Arrangement

Bassline

Bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of music, such as blues, jazz, funk, dub and electronic, traditional, and classical music, for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played (in jazz and some forms of popular music) by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, cello, tuba or keyboard (piano, Hammond organ, electric organ, or synthesizer).

See Lead sheet and Bassline

Berklee College of Music

The Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts.

See Lead sheet and Berklee College of Music

Black market

A black market, underground economy, or shadow economy is a clandestine market or series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality or is not compliant with an institutional set of rules.

See Lead sheet and Black market

Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Lead sheet and Blues are jazz terminology.

See Lead sheet and Blues

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

See Lead sheet and Broadway theatre

Chas. H. Hansen Music Corp.

Chas.

See Lead sheet and Chas. H. Hansen Music Corp.

Chord (music)

In music, a chord is a group of two or more notes played simultaneously, typically consisting of a root note, a third, and a fifth.

See Lead sheet and Chord (music)

Chord chart

A chord chart (or chart) is a form of musical notation that describes the basic harmonic and rhythmic information for a song or tune. Lead sheet and chord chart are jazz terminology and musical notation.

See Lead sheet and Chord chart

Chord notation

Musicians use various kinds of chord names and symbols in different contexts to represent musical chords. Lead sheet and chord notation are musical notation.

See Lead sheet and Chord notation

Chord progression

In a musical composition, a chord progression or harmonic progression (informally chord changes, used as a plural) is a succession of chords. Lead sheet and chord progression are jazz terminology.

See Lead sheet and Chord progression

Comping (jazz)

In jazz, comping (an abbreviation of accompaniment; or possibly from the verb, to "complement") is the chords, rhythms, and countermelodies that keyboard players (piano or organ), guitar players, or drummers use to support a musician's improvised solo or melody lines. Lead sheet and comping (jazz) are jazz terminology.

See Lead sheet and Comping (jazz)

Copyright

A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.

See Lead sheet and Copyright

Cue (theatrical)

A theatrical cue is the trigger for an action to be carried out at a specific time.

See Lead sheet and Cue (theatrical)

Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

See Lead sheet and Deep Purple

Electronic publishing

Electronic publishing (also referred to as e-publishing, digital publishing, or online publishing) includes the digital publication of e-books, digital magazines, and the development of digital libraries and catalogues.

See Lead sheet and Electronic publishing

Entertainment law

Entertainment law, also referred to as media law, is legal services provided to the entertainment industry.

See Lead sheet and Entertainment law

Extended chord

In music, extended chords are certain chords (built from thirds) or triads with notes extended, or added, beyond the seventh.

See Lead sheet and Extended chord

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

See Lead sheet and Federal Bureau of Investigation

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

See Lead sheet and Grammy Awards

Harmony

In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds together in order to create new, distinct musical ideas.

See Lead sheet and Harmony

Head (music)

In its broadest sense, the head of a piece of music is its main theme, particularly in jazz, where the term takes on a more specific set of innovation. Lead sheet and head (music) are jazz techniques and jazz terminology.

See Lead sheet and Head (music)

Index card

An index card (or record card in British English and system cards in Australian English) consists of card stock (heavy paper) cut to a standard size, used for recording and storing small amounts of discrete data.

See Lead sheet and Index card

Jam session

A jam session is a relatively informal musical event, process, or activity where musicians, typically instrumentalists, play improvised solos and vamp over tunes, drones, songs, and chord progressions. Lead sheet and jam session are jazz techniques and jazz terminology.

See Lead sheet and Jam session

Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. Lead sheet and Jazz are jazz terminology.

See Lead sheet and Jazz

Jazz guitarist

Jazz guitarists are guitarists who play jazz using an approach to chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines which is called jazz guitar playing.

See Lead sheet and Jazz guitarist

Jazz improvisation

Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts in a performance of jazz music. Lead sheet and jazz improvisation are jazz techniques and jazz terminology.

See Lead sheet and Jazz improvisation

Jazz piano

Jazz piano is a collective term for the techniques pianists use when playing jazz.

See Lead sheet and Jazz piano

Jazz standard

Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners. Lead sheet and jazz standard are jazz techniques and jazz terminology.

See Lead sheet and Jazz standard

Lyrics

Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses.

See Lead sheet and Lyrics

Melody

A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

See Lead sheet and Melody

Music industry

The music industry refers to the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent and supply music creators. Lead sheet and music industry are music performance.

See Lead sheet and Music industry

Music royalties

Music royalties are royalty payments for the writing and performing of music. Lead sheet and music royalties are music industry.

See Lead sheet and Music royalties

Musical improvisation

Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians. Lead sheet and musical improvisation are jazz techniques.

See Lead sheet and Musical improvisation

Musical notation

Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music.

See Lead sheet and Musical notation

Nightclub

A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment.

See Lead sheet and Nightclub

Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

See Lead sheet and Ogg

Photocopier

A photocopier (also called copier or copy machine, and formerly Xerox machine, the generic trademark) is a machine that makes copies of documents and other visual images onto paper or plastic film quickly and cheaply.

See Lead sheet and Photocopier

Ralph Patt

Ralph Oliver Patt (5 December 1929 – 6 October 2010) was an American jazz guitarist who introduced major-thirds tuning.

See Lead sheet and Ralph Patt

Real Book

The Real Book is a musicians' fake book – a compilation of lead sheets for jazz standards.

See Lead sheet and Real Book

Real Book (album)

Real Book is an album by the bassist Steve Swallow, released on the Xtra Watt label in 1994.

See Lead sheet and Real Book (album)

Riff

A riff is a short, repeated motif or figure in the melody or accompaniment of a musical composition.

See Lead sheet and Riff

Rise Up Singing

Rise Up Singing is a popular folk music fake book containing chords, lyrics, and sources.

See Lead sheet and Rise Up Singing

Roman numeral analysis

In music theory, Roman numeral analysis is a type of harmonic analysis in which chords are represented by Roman numerals, which encode the chord's degree and harmonic function within a given musical key.

See Lead sheet and Roman numeral analysis

Sheet music

Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece. Lead sheet and Sheet music are musical notation.

See Lead sheet and Sheet music

Singing

Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. Lead sheet and Singing are music performance.

See Lead sheet and Singing

Smoke on the Water

"Smoke on the Water" is a song by English rock band Deep Purple, released on their 1972 studio album Machine Head.

See Lead sheet and Smoke on the Water

Song

A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice.

See Lead sheet and Song

Songwriter

A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both.

See Lead sheet and Songwriter

Staff (music)

In Western musical notation, the staff: "in British English: also called: stave; plural: staffs or staves" (UK also stave; plural: staffs or staves), also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments. Lead sheet and staff (music) are musical notation.

See Lead sheet and Staff (music)

Steve Swallow

Steve Swallow (born October 4, 1940) is an American jazz bassist and composer, known for his collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton, and Carla Bley.

See Lead sheet and Steve Swallow

Syncopation

In music, syncopation is a variety of rhythms played together to make a piece of music, making part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat. Lead sheet and syncopation are jazz techniques and jazz terminology.

See Lead sheet and Syncopation

The Fiddler's Fakebook

The Fiddler's Fakebook, by David Brody, is a collection of fiddle tunes in lead sheet form (naturally without lyrics).

See Lead sheet and The Fiddler's Fakebook

Thirty-two-bar form

The 32-bar form, also known as the AABA song form, American popular song form and the ballad form, is a song structure commonly found in Tin Pan Alley songs and other American popular music, especially in the first half of the 20th century. Lead sheet and Thirty-two-bar form are jazz terminology.

See Lead sheet and Thirty-two-bar form

Transposition (music)

In music, transposition refers to the process or operation of moving a collection of notes (pitches or pitch classes) up or down in pitch by a constant interval.

See Lead sheet and Transposition (music)

Turnaround (music)

In jazz, a turnaround is a passage at the end of a section which leads to the next section. Lead sheet and turnaround (music) are jazz techniques and jazz terminology.

See Lead sheet and Turnaround (music)

Vocal range

Vocal range is the range of pitches that a human voice can phonate.

See Lead sheet and Vocal range

Voice leading

Voice leading (or part writing) is the linear progression of individual melodic lines (voices or parts) and their interaction with one another to create harmonies, typically in accordance with the principles of common-practice harmony and counterpoint.

See Lead sheet and Voice leading

Voicing (music)

In music theory, voicing refers to two closely related concepts.

See Lead sheet and Voicing (music)

See also

Jazz techniques

• Avoid note
• Block chord
• Blue note
• Call and response (music)
• Chordioid
• Coltrane changes
• Constant structure
• Contrafact
• Cutting contest
• Fingerstyle guitar
• Four note group
• Free improvisation
• Groove (drumming)
• Groove (music)
• Half-time (music)
• Harmolodics
• Head (music)
• Impro-Visor
• Jam session
• Jazz chord
• Jazz harmony
• Jazz improvisation
• Jazz scale
• Jazz standard
• Lead sheet
• Montgomery-Ward bridge
• Musical improvisation
• Polyrhythm
• Scat singing
• Sentimental ballad
• Sheets of sound
• So What chord
• Spanish tinge
• Swing time
• Syncopation
• Tadd Dameron turnaround
• The Lick
• Turnaround (music)
• Upper structure
• Vocalese

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_sheet

Also known as Fake Book, Fake books, Fake music, Fake sheet, Leadsheet, Popular music symbol, Tune-Dex card.

, Song, Songwriter, Staff (music), Steve Swallow, Syncopation, The Fiddler's Fakebook, Thirty-two-bar form, Transposition (music), Turnaround (music), Vocal range, Voice leading, Voicing (music).