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jhatpro
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 Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2020 5:57 pm Post subject: Upbeats in Jazz |
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I’ve been reading lately about note grouping and the importance of upbeats in musical expression but the examples have been exclusively classical excerpts. Are these concepts employed by advanced jazz players as well?
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It's characteristic to play the upbeats stronger than the down beat. Also to slur from the upbeats into downbeats. So, a typical eight-note phrase in 4/4, might be (all eights) downbeat-emphasized upbeat- slurred into the next downbeat, etc.
Obviously, it changes but this is probably the most fundamental pattern. Listen to somebody like Clifford Brown and hear where these articulations are used and also how they re modified.
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Thanks! That must be why he always sounded so good.
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