Units: 2
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 1.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Spring even years

This course introduces students to melodic improvisational techniques used in jazz and many commercial musical styles. Participants study the art of constructing an appropriate linear melodic solo in a variety of common styles, including swing, Latin, bop, funk, fusion, and soul. The course relates music theory and improvisation to chord/scale relationships and modes, modal chord progressions, blues, rhythm changes, and standard major and minor chord progressions.