Modern Drummer Series: Common Jazz Forms, part 2

I talk a lot about the 1 chord and the 4 chord, etc. If you re not familiar with that, here s a little breakdown: Musicians refer to how far the Root of the chord they re playing is from the Root of the song in numbers as it related the key s major scale. For example, in the key of C, a chord that is played that starts on C is the 1 chord. A D chord would be a 2 chord, etc. Except, we use roman numerals, partly because we can use an upper case letter to represent a major chord, and a lower c br, br,