Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to improvise over a standard ii-V7-I progression in multiple keys.
• Students will be able to identify scales as related to advanced chord symbols, including the most common (melodic minor, diminished and whole-tone scale).
• Improvise melodic minor, diminished and Lydian dominant scales in all twelve keys.
• Improvise stylistically correct solos over a rhythm change chord progression
• Integrate jazz theory through exercises and performances.
• Develop melodic ideas over extended phrase and song lengths.
• Perform a coherent improvised solo in an extended song form, based on non-traditional harmonies, including Lydian dominant and altered chords.
• Identify altered dominant, half diminished, and full diminished scales related to advanced chord symbols