Units: 1
Prerequisites: MUS 128.
Advisory: MUS 152A or MUS 253
Enrollment Limitation: Maximum of four enrollments among MUS 120, MUS 121, MUS 128, MUS 129, MUS 228, MUS 229. NOTE: No course within this grouping is repeatable.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Laboratory 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall

This course provides jazz piano performance training and covers advanced musicianship skills. It includes contemporary notation, scales, chords, transposition, and sight reading. Students continue to develop advanced level jazz piano performance and accompanying skills using appropriate literature, and they study prominent pianists and the different eras of jazz piano history. Students are required to attend a live professional piano performance and perform in public at least once.