Intonation
Refers to the extent to which notes match the “correct” pitch. Precise intonation means matching standard pitches in cycles per second of the Euro-American chromatic style.
Blue Notes
Occurs when both regular and flatted forms of certain scale degrees are used (often with sliding in between these scale pitches)
Blues
The music of play in black America.
Shuffle Beat
Long-Short, Long-Short – By connecting together the first two notes in each group of three 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3, = long-short, long-short, long-short, long-short.
Syncopation
Accenting normally unaccented beats or accenting notes that occur in between beats
Blues Progression
Riff
Bridge
Ud
Sephardic
Ashkenazic
Klezmer
Asymmetrical
Scales
Tonic
Dominant
Triads
Ganga
Palimpset
Vedas
Sanskrit
Dharma
Tamil
Bhajan
Carnatic Music
Ragas
Talas
Drone
Kriti
Veena
Mridangam
Fusian