Course Outline

Topics covered this semester will include:

Transcription Techniques

Transcription and analysis techniques

Analysis

The ii7-V7-I∆7 progression and resolution techniques
The ii7-V7-i-7 progression and resolution techniques
Alternate turnarounds and cycles

Ornamentation

Major embellishing devices
Minor embellishing devices
Chromatic neighboring tones

Modes

The Aeolian mode
The Locrian mode
The Lydian Mode
The Phrygian Mode
Modes of the melodic minor scale

Scales

Bebop major and minor scales
The Diminished Scale
The Whole Tone Scale

Progressions

Rhythm Changes
Giant Step Changes
Chord substitutions

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