If you are a guitarist who is already competent in other styles or has recently started to play jazz, this course will equip you with the basic technical skills and musical knowledge for playing jazz on the guitar. The course is "hands-on", designed to help you develop your guitar technique and expand your knowledge of chords, scales, arpeggios and melodic patterns on the guitar. From the start you will learn to play jazz tunes - their chord progressions and melodies - and begin to improvise on them. You will receive guidance in developing your improvisation, accompaniment and performance skills and an understanding of music theory. We also study the work of the major jazz guitarists and other leading jazz artists.Your course will have a practical focus and offer you opportunities to learn and further develop your jazz guitar skills Topics will include: 1. Basic chords for jazz guitar: Major; minor; dom.7; major 7; minor 7; half-diminished; dim.7; chord embellishment: maj 6; maj 7th; maj 9; 6/9 2. Chord voicings for common progressions: 11,V7,1; 111,V1,11,V7; etc. 3. Basic music theory for the jazz musician: Intervals; Cycle of 5ths; Harmonising the major scale; chord/scale relationships. 4. To identify and play common rhythms. 5. Basic scales - Major, minor, pentatonic in several positions and fingerings; Scale variations e.g. scale in 3rds; scale in broken 7th chords. 6. Major, minor and 7th chord arpeggios over 1 octave and 2 octaves with inversions. 7. "4-in-the-bar" rhythm guitar style: using 3-note and 4-note chord voicings. 8. To play chords, melodies, chord melodies, accompaniments and to improvise on several jazz standards such as the following: 12-bar blues (in F major); 12-bar blues (in Bb major); Honeysuckle Rose; Perdido; I Got Rhythm; Sweet Georgia Brown; Saint Thomas; Pennies From Heaven; One Note Samba; Yardbird Suite; Take the "A" Train; Satin Doll, Blue Bossa, Nuages, Autumn Leaves, It Had To Be You, Oh Lady Be Good, All of Me, Scrapple f
Name: Jazz Guitar - Intermediate Qualification title: Non regulated Community Learning provision, Performing Arts Qualification type: Assessment There is no formal assessment on this course although you will be able to identify individual goals and later reflect on your development. Your tutor will assess your learning and progress through the practical nature of the classes. Awarding Generic award - no awarding body Created 20160725 10:23:44 Updated 20160725 10:23:44
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Richmond Adult Community College
Further Education
info@racc.ac.uk
020 8891 5907
http://www.racc.ac.uk
Parkshot Town: Richmond County:Surrey
Title: Non regulated Community Learning provision, Performing Arts Qualification: Non regulated Community Learning provision, Performing Arts Classification: Arts, Media and Publishing