Jazz Singing Fundamentals - Exploring Improvisation

The sessions will focus on exploring improvisation and expanding song interpretation. Working with common jazz forms and songs, practical material will be introduced to explore as a group, while observing important relationships with the underpinning theory.

You will be introduced to creative and practical activities to be explored and developed with appropriately challenging activities to allow for differing levels of experience.

Various themes will be explored throughout the course such as:
• singing melodically
• working with jazz rhythm
• creating and developing simple phrases
• understanding and ‘feeling’ simple forms in jazz
• practical approaches to harmony and theory

You will also be given ideas and materials for ‘follow on’ activities and practi-cal material to further develop the pieces and your playing after the course.

There may be a performance opportunity at RJS events and activities.