when jazz ensemble players exchange leads every four bars
Fours
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Twos
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a set of two bar phrases; in jazz, when different players alternate playing two bar phrases, this is called trading twos
Banjo
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a plucked, four to nine wire occasionally gut strung instrument, the strings lying on a low bridge over a resonator made of a…
Behind the beat
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when a performer deliberately sounds the notes slightly after the beat set by the ensemble
Borre
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a French dance similar to the gavotte but beginning on the fourth beat of four rather than the third of four as in the gavotte
Borree
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a French dance similar to the gavotte but beginning on the fourth beat of four rather than the third of four as in the gavotte
Borrowed division
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a term used to describe when a note is divided into an unusual number of smaller notes, for example, when three quarter notes…
Borry
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a French dance similar to the gavotte but beginning on the fourth beat of four rather than the third of four as in the gavotte
Bourrée
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a French dance similar to the gavotte but beginning on the fourth beat (of four) rather than the third (of four) as in the ga…