that was the kansas city stomp you may notice that in playing jazz the breaks are one of the most essential things that you can ever do in jazz without breaks and without clean breaks without beautiful ideas in breaks you dont need to even think about doin anything else if you cant have a decent break you havent got a jazz band or you cant even play jazz show us a good break jelly now thats what youd call a pretty good break for instance ill play just a little bit of a melody of somethin and show you thats what youd call a break maybe id better play something that you can understand more for instance strutters ball i made those blakes breaks kind of clean because the fact of it is everybody knows this tune and they know how its played and theyll know where the breaks come in without a break you have nothing even if a tune have no break in it it is always necessary to arrange some kind of a spot to make a break because without a break as i said before you havent gotten jazz and er your accurate tempos with your backgrounds of your figures which is called riffs today of course that that happens to be a musical term riffs whats the difference between a riff and a break arent they about the same thing oh no no theres a difference er a riff is a background a riff is what you would call a foundation as like you would walk on its something thats standard and a break is something that you break when you make the break that means all the band break with maybe one two or three instruments it depends upon how the combination is arranged and as you as the band breaks you have a set given time possibly two bars to make the break isnt isnt the break what you when you when you make break isnt that what you mean by swinging no no thats not what swing is swing dont mean that swing means something like this 