IMPROVISATION

Improvisation is certainly one of the key characteristics of many musical styles and genres 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 course 'Improvisation' is how to improvise and what the fundamental characteristics of improvisation are within the aforementioned musical styles, genres, and periods.

TEMPO

- Playing with a metronome

- Playing with minus-one accompaniment

- Playing in a duet

RHYTHMIC EMPHASIS

- Swing

- Be-bop

- Cool

- Latin

- Fusion

SCALES & MODES

- Pentatonic scales

- Ionian and all associated modes

- Melodic minor and some associated modes

- Harmonic minor and some associated modes

- Symmetrical diminished scale

- Whole-tone scale

HARMONIC ANALYSIS

- Modality

- Tonality and degrees

- Modulation

- Alteration

- Substitution

TRANSCRIPTION

- Rhythm

- Transcription techniques

- Transcription analysis

- Recognizing and selecting motifs

- Transposing and developing motifs

IMPROVISATION

- Musical forms

- Patterns

- Chromatics

- Syllable, word and sentence

- Structure

REPERTOIRE

- Jazz standards

- Fusion

- Ethno

- Blues

- Rock

- Classical music

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