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Jazz Improvisation
Class Schedule
The instructor reserves the right
to alter this schedule verbally during class: (please ask if you
have any questions about the schedule or quizzes)
- Unit #1-Review of major scales and
major seventh chords; guide tones; improvisation with
misc. Aebersold tracks (weeks 1 and 2)*
- Unit #2-Study of the Blues; mixolydian
scales and dominant 7th chords; blues tunes; V-I
scales/chords (weeks 2 and 3)
- Unit #3-Modal tunes; dorian scales and
minor 7th chords; II-V-I scales/chords (weeks 4 and 5)
- Unit #4-Review of previous material
from the 3rd and 7th with inversions; II-V-I licks in 12
keys (weeks 6 and 7)
- Unit #5 lydian dominant scales;
inverted dominant 7th chords; tunes with secondary or
substitute V's; substitute V-I scales/chords (weeks 8 and
9)
- Unit #5-Review of previous material
from the 3rd and 7th with inversions; subsititue II-V-I
scales/chords (weeks 10 and 11)
Unit #6-TBA (weeks 12 and 13)**
*each unit (2 week period) is preceeded by
a written homework assignment (due at the beginning of a new
unit)-see the syllabus for detalis
**each unit is concluded with a quiz covering the material within
that unit only
**the semester is concluded with a cumlitive exam covering the
material for the entire semester-see the syllabus for details: the
date for the final exam is Thursday, December 16th from 2-3:50.
Daily Activities
- Scale Drill (verbally spell; play as a
group)
- Chord Drill (verbally spell; play as a
group)
- Free playing within a scale (using a
difficult key from the scale under study)
- Melodic Performance Ear Training (call
and response style from the scale under study)
- Harmonic Recognition (of the chord
under study)
- II-V chords/scales/licks (in 12
keys-play as a group)
- Transcription Performance (with
recordings and written solos as a group-sing and play)
- Tune Study (chords/scale/guide tone
application, individual improvisation, solo concept
development)