Section: Instruments

This is a preview of the educational program A Jazz Improvisation Almanac which is under development for the Outside Shore Music Online School. Feel free to browse this preview and learn what you can from it. For a more completed product, though, check out the original freely browsable jazz textbook, A Jazz Improvisation Primer.

There are many different instruments that have been used in jazz, and most of these have come to take on specific roles. The roles of melody, harmony, bass, and rhythm are fundamental to music. The instruments discussing in this section are grouped according to the roles they generally fulfill in jazz. These categorizations should not be considered rules for how each instrument must be played in jazz; they are merely an attempt to acknowledge what has become common practice.

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Section: Instruments