Course Detail
Units:
2.0
Course Components:
Seminar
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: "C" or better in MUSC 3350.
Description
Intermediate level course. 3350 is prerequisite. Same approach as Jazz Improvisation I, with the following additions: Students must transcribe, analyze, and perform jazz solo transcriptions. Pentatonic Scales (major and minor.) Sectional forms and "I Got Rhythm" changes and variations. Diminished Scales, Diminished and Altered Dominant 7th Chords. Whole Tone Scales and Augmented Chords and Scales. Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales. Locrian #2 and Diminished/Whole Tone (Superlocrian) Scales. Lydian Augmented and Lydian Dominant Scales.