The Jammy Concert

The Jammy Concert is a devotional form of music originating in The Infamy of Pheromones. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A singer recites nonsensical words and sounds. The entire performance is at a hurried pace. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the nadu scale and in the masul rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to play rapid runs and locally improvise. From beginning to end, when improvising, artists should often include a rising-falling melody pattern with mordents and arpeggios.

• The singer always does the main melody, should evoke tears and makes trills. The voice ranges from the middle register to the high register.
• The Jammy Concert has the following structure: three brief unrelated passages and a finale.
• Each of the simple passages is to be soft. Each passage has short phrases in the melody.
• The finale is to start loud then be immediately soft. The passage has phrases of varied length in the melody.
• Scales are constructed from fifteen notes dividing the octave. In quartertones, their spacing is roughly 1-x-xx-x-x-x-xxx-x-xx-xxO, where 1 is the tonic, O marks the octave and x marks other notes. The tonic note is a fixed tone passed from teacher to student.
• The nadu pentatonic scale is constructed by selection of degrees from the fundamental scale. The degrees selected are the 1st, the 4th, the 6th, the 11th and the 12th.
• The masul rhythm is a single line with eight beats. The beats are named axslor (spoken ax), bagurod (ba), sastospu (sa), assna (as), xuzestra (xu), roxstat (ro), tekug (te) and odo (od). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - - - x - - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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