Jazz Improvisation Techniques 5
An advanced course recommended for students who have already begun to develop their own personal musical styles. Challenging rhythmic topics are featured as aspects of performance of improved solos. Techniques covered include preparation exercises for rhythmic displacement: symmetrical and asymmetrical, pentatonic and tritonic scales applied to conventional chord scales, motive development (augmentation and diminution), soloing rubato on song's chord progression, and soloing with full/partial rhythm section accompaniment and also with no accompaniment. Development of effective practice skills. Music from various periods of jazz (swing, bop, postbop, and contemporary) will be used for demonstration, practice, and performance activities. Classes are leveled and instrumentally balanced; students perform weekly.