Learn the basic concepts of improvisation from Gary Burton, one of the most renowned improvisers in the jazz world, including the mental, melodic, and harmonic processes that contribute to the instinctive skills that an improviser puts to use when taking a solo.
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Students should be able to play an instrument at a beginner level and be familiar with basic music notation.
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Use storytelling as a tool to improve your improvisation
Practice and use various scales to improve your improvisation skills
Identify harmonic motion in a song
Use guide tones and guide tone lines when you're improvising
Skills you will gain
- Music Performance
- Music
- Jazz
- Jazz Improvisation
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Welcome to Jazz Improvisation
Improvisation as a Language
The Improviser's Vocabulary
Making Scale Choices in Real Time
Harmony for Improvisers
Reviews
- 5 stars86.41%
- 4 stars10.86%
- 3 stars1.68%
- 2 stars0.64%
- 1 star0.38%
TOP REVIEWS FROM JAZZ IMPROVISATION
Good course. I learn a new skill such as how to use scale tone for improvisation, The 10 important scale and method to analysis song.
Thank you Mr. Gary Burton.
It was productive and interesting time. I learnt a lot of new things and got much fun improving my improvisation skills.
Cite from course: You will have plenty to keep you busy in the months ahead.
Thank you very much for the wonderful course. The assignments are so well created that this provides wonderful guiding to the jazz improvisation. I hope a lot of participat enjoy the course.
I like its its pushing me to think and motivate myself for progress...and I'm only just in the initial stages ..so from the beginning it has my enthusiasm.
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