Improvisation (MUSC 2117)
An intermediate level course focusing on jazz and Latin standards and some jazz fusion repertoire. Students gain facility with all scales/modes/arpeggios, key modulations, chord/plural substitutes, pan modal concepts and certain modes of the jazz melodic minor scale and their application to altered dominant chords. 2:0:0
Course code: MUSC 2117
Credits: 2.0
Tuition: $0
Length: 0.0 hours
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Prerequisites
Jazz Improvisation 1217, Materials and Structures of Music 1203, Kodaly Solfege 1201.Corequisites
Jazz Theory 2115, CET 2100 . No schedule is currently available. Please check again later.
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Additional Information
- 7 major scale chord families
- 7 major scale modes
- Maj7, Min7,Dom7 and Min7b5 arpeggios
- Major and Minor Pentatonic scales
- Finger patterns on scales and arpeggios
- Analysis of standard chord progressions including Secondary Dominants
- Diminished 7th substitutions for Dom7b9 chords
- Rhythmic concepts
- Pan Modal and Plural Substitution concepts
- Harmonic Minor scale
- Spanish Phrygian mode to Dom7#5b9 chords
- Diminished 7th arpeggios to Dom7b9 chords
- Selected repertoire
This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.
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