Credit Hours:1 Lab Hours:2 Contact Hour Total:32 Materials and practices for improvisation or extemporaneous performance in the jazz idiom. The art of jazz improvisation. A course in the basic materials and skills used in improvising jazz solos. The course objectives are provision of basic skills for improvisation and opportunity to refine those skills in regular practice sessions. This course will add refinement to improvised solos within the jazz ensemble within our current curriculum.
Prerequisite(s): Knowledge of all major scales and admission by instructor approval.