Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

MUS 3771 - Jazz Improvisation II


Learning and applying through improvisation the whole tone, diminished and blues scales, the Aeolian and Location modes, the ii-V7-I progression, and culminating with final project utilizing blues form.

Requisites: C or better in MUS 1020
Credit Hours: 1
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will demonstrate facility in improvising the blues using the above harmonic/melodic vocabulary.
  • Students will know all modes and be able to play them with facility in all transpositions.
  • Students will know and be able to play a variety of blues-derived forms.
  • Students will know whole tone, diminished, and blues scales in all transpositions and be able to play them with facility.


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