Year 4 Improvisation 20-21

Year 4 Improv - Product and Process.

Topics to be covered will include:

  • Intervallic improvising
  • Integrated improvising
  • Action/interaction
  • New Tonalities (ECM, Slash-chord, Coleman/Hindemith, Garzone, Liebman, late Coltrane).


Year 3 Improvisation 20-21

Year 3 BMus Jazz Improvisation Classes

Core aims:

  • Self-managed practice.
  • Product and process in improvisation: design, action and interaction.
  • Modal improvisation.
  • Rhythm as a resource for improvisation.
  • The "Ballad" as a genre.