Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to identify major, mixolydian, and dorian scales as related to jazz chord symbols.
• Students will be asked to identify the chord changes to a standard 12-bar blues progression.
• Improvise using major, dominant and minor scales in all twelve keys.
• Improvise stylistically correct solos over a blues chord progression.
• Classify major, dominant, and minor scales related to chord symbols.
• Apply jazz theory into performance and written exercises.
• Develop melodic ideas
• Demonstrate aural development by imitating short melodic phrases.
• Perform coherent improvised solos on a simple jazz song.