Jazz harmony 2 and ensembles

City Lit

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£ 499 VAT inc.

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    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Develop your listening skills from Jazz harmony and ear training 1 to include more unusual forms, extended and altered harmony, and expand your knowledge of jazz repertoire. This practical class features playing tunes and improvisation over the study tunes. New knowledge and concepts will be applied directly to your instrument.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- Enjoy a greater knowledge of compositional forms and repertoire
- Advance your improvising and ability to work well in a small ensemble
- Be confident about playing in public.

Lionel Grigson, Practical Jazz (Stainer and Bell) and Mark Levine, Jazz Theory Book (ChuckSher) recommended.

You will be taught through group listening, discussion and singing of relevant musical lines and parts, class exercises (dictation and chord recognition) to learn the tunes in the first hour, and ensemble practice in the second hour.

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Subjects

  • Jazz

Course programme

- Understanding more unusual compositional forms
- Extending rhythmic and melodic awareness
- Study more advanced bass line movements (e.g. tritone substitution) and extended/altered voice-leading
- Further scale options including melodic minor
- Practice improvising on the study tunes
- jazz standards, bebop blues, modal pieces, rhythm changes, Bossa nova, and contemporary rep
- rehearse as a small or large group.

Additional information

You may wish to continue developing your skills through Jazz harmony, ear training and ensembles: advanced, subject to tutor approvel, join City Lit Big Band 2, or tgake part in the Jazz woodshedding and Jazz repertoire short courses. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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