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Live courses, lectures, workshops, and tutoring sessions will be available online starting next week – detailed program below. If you're interested or know someone who might be, feel free to get in touch or share this!
Best regards, and see you/hear from you soon,
Zoki
JAZZ ARRANGEMENT AND ORCHESTRATION
JAZZ ARRANGEMENT AND ORCHESTRATION
The Big Band sound is so characteristic that even musically uneducated people recognize very easily. Jazz music constantly evolves but the recognizability of the Big Band sound remained intact. The main topic of the course "Jazz arrangement and orchestration".is writing techniques and methods that contributed to the distinctiveness of the Big Band sound.
Program:
Program:
SCALES & MODES
- Ionian and all related modes
- Melodic minor and some related modes
- Harmonic minor and some related modes
- Harmonic major and some related modes
- Symmetrically diminished scale
- Whole tone scale
- Harmonically augmented scales
HARMONICAL ANALYSIS
- Modality
- Tonality and degrees
- Modulation
- Modulation within tonality
- Alteration
- Substitution
- Reharmonization
MELODY ANALYSIS
- Chord tones
- Scale or mode tones
- Tensions
- Chromatic approach
- Double chromatic approach
- Diatonic approach
- Dominant approach
- Indirect resolution approach
ARRANGEMENT TECHNIQUES
- Independent lead
- Two-voice
- Three-voice
- 4 way close
- Drop-two
- Six voices quart voicing
- Clusters
ORCHESTRATION TECHNIQUES
- brass section
- section of woodwind instruments
- rhythm section
- the same arranging techniques within one section
- different arranging techniques within one section
- the same arranging techniques within different sections
- different arranging techniques within different sections
- constant coupling
- variable coupling
- double lead
IMPROVISATION
IMPROVISATION
Improvisation is certainly one of the important characteristics of many different kinds of music such as Jazz, Blues, Rock, Ethno and Fusion, as well as many musical periods from the Renaissance and Baroque to contemporary classical music. The main topic of the “improvisation” course is how to improvise and what are the basic characteristics of improvisation within the above-mentioned musical styles, movements and periods.
Program:
Program:
TEMPO
- playing with a metronome
- playing with recorded accompaniment
- playing in a duet
PHRASING
- 8tg and16th notes straight phrasing
- triplets swing phrasing
- hybrid phrasing
SCALES & MODES
- pentatonics
- ionian and all related modes
- melodic minor and some associated modes
- harmonic minor and some related modes
- symmetrically diminished scale
- whole tone scale
HARMONY ANALYSIS
- modality
- tonality and degrees
- modulation
- alteration
- substitution
TRANSCRIPTION
- rhythmics
- transcription technique
- transcription analysis
- recognition and selection of motifs
- transposing and developing motifs
IMPROVISATION
- noise, sound and tone
- musical forms
- paterns
- chromatics
- musical syllable, word and sentence
- structure
REPERTOIRE
- Jazz
- Latin
- Fusion
- Ethno
- Blues
- Rock
- classic music
- free and conceptual improvisation
JAZZ GUITAR
JAZZ GUITAR
This course contains the complete program of the “Improvisation” course, additionally expanded with Jazz guitar playing techniques.
This course contains the complete program of the “Improvisation” course, additionally expanded with Jazz guitar playing techniques.
Program:
Program:
SCALES & MODES
- vertical positions
- horizontal positions
- scale harmonization
HARMONY
- chords and positions
- clusters and open strings
- reharmonization
COMPING
- comping with the rhythm section
- comping in a duet
SOLO GUITAR ARRANGEMENTS
- pick playing technique
- finger playing technique
SPECIAL PROGRAM
- preparation for the entrance exam to Jazz academies
MICROTONAL HARMONY
MICROTONAL HARMONY
Microtonal music is not a style direction but an intonation system. One of the definitions of microtonal music says that microtonal music is all music whose intonation system is not based on the equally tempered division of the octave into 12 tones. According to this definition, all music up until a century and a half ago was microtonal. Also, all ethno music is microtonal if performed on original instruments. Nowadays, with the advent of electronic music and the use of computers, many possibilities that musicians did not have before have become available.
This course is based on the book “Five limit intervals - theory & praxis” (Z. Šćekić) and the CD album “Just music” (Z. Šćekić) and the main topic is the Just intonation harmony.
About program:
About program:
"Šćekić’s work, observed objectively from a neutral platform helps us to unlock certain doorways, and move freely into broader landscapes."
Pat Martino
"Zoran Šćekić is a shining light and beacon for the creative music scene in Zagreb. Both classical and jazz musicians respect his creativity, knowledge and discipline in their respective fields, as composer, educator and as a curator. It is very difficult to do one of those well and Zoran has managed a life and career where he balances all three. I give my highest recommendation, and please feel free to contact me with any questions."
Jon Irabagon; Saxophonist and composer
"The beauty of his music is not only found in the mathematical structures imposed, but in the space between the notes and in the dynamic progression within the pieces. Šćekić masterfully crafts pieces that on the surface portray often lyrical, placid, and harmonic gestures, yet are richly calculated and complex in their construction."
PARMA Recordings; NH, United States
"If you think you know what albums featuring the piano sound like, think again. This is a very different sort of album in which the piano is presented in very subtle and peculiar ways. This music is wonderfully resonant and strangely perplexing. This album is... simply beautiful. One of the most impressive piano albums we've ever heard."
http://www.babysue.com/2016-March-LMNOP-Reviews.html
"Just music" presents Šćekić not only as a composer with a refined ear but also as a patient painter of sound. With this sound carrier (perhaps consciously, or perhaps unconsciously), he has presented an inspiration drawn from the conventions of centuries-old Eastern poetry, seeking beauty in simplicity, intimacy, lightness, and elegance."
Dora Dunatov, CANTUS No. 199
"The CD album "Just music" by Zoran Šćekić brings us closer to a piano like we've never heard before, emphasizing the beauty of its tones in a delicate and wondrous way. Grammy Award-winner John Schneider included "Just music" among the best CD releases of 2015, in the prestigious company of names such as Harry Partch, Brad Mehldau, and Wynton Marsalis."
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