1. preferred instrumentation for bepop was the small combo instead of the big band

2. average tempo fast faster in bepop

3. Clarinet was rare in bepop

4. display of instrumental virtuosity was a higher priority.

5. rhythm guitar was rare

6.  less emphasis placed on arrangements

- Stylistic differences between this and swing

1. - melodies were more complex in bepop

2. harmonies were more complex

accompaniment rhythms were more varied

3. - comping rplaced stride style and simple on the beat chording

5. drummers played their timekeeping rhythms primarily on suspended cymbal rather than snare, high hat, or bass drum

6. bepop musicians enjoyed leaving phrases in tunes suspended or unresolved

7.  bepop was a more agitated style

8. bepop improvisation was more complex because it contained, more themes per solo, less similarity among themes, more excursions outside the tune's original key, a greater scope of rhythmic development

9 surprise was more highly valued in bepop

1 - drummers play with more activity

2. tone colors are darker, weightier and rougher

3 - chord progressions in the comping are less frequently identifical to those of pop tunes

4 - there is somewhat less of the start and stop quality that leaves the listener off balance

5 - there is a hard-driving feeling that pushes relentlessly with an emphasis on consistent swinging

6- piano comping has more variety in rhythmsand chord voicings.

more extensive manipulations of pitch and tone quality - ultra high register playing common, with addition of shrieks squaks, wails gurgles and squeals.  Hoarse tone rough qualities common.

Creation of textures often seemed more important than the development of melodies.  The label was often applied to music of high energy and dense textures which maintained turbulent activity for long periods. 

concept of melody displayed a loosening of bebop melodic and rhythmic practicies had been standard for jazz musicians since the 1940's.  .

rock and funk typically have:

1 - shorter phrase lengths

2 - less frequent chord changes

3 less complexity of melody and harmony

5 - less use of improv, especially in compings

6 - much more repititions of melodic phrases

7 - more repetition of brief chord progressions

8 - simpler more repetitive drumming patterns

9 - more pronounced repetition of bass figures

10 - more is preset in rock and funk perforamnces than in jazz.  Jazz requires solos and comps to be improvd fresh.

11 - jazz places emphasis on rhythmic flexibility and relaxation, rock stresses intensity and firmness.  Jazz - shuffling or loping, lilting, bouncy, pulls each beat along - but rock sits on each beat.  rock timing is more straught up and down