College Level Jazz Theory Part 2

Name: College Level Jazz Theory Part 2
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What you'll learn

In part 2 of College Level Jazz you will go into more deeply the how, when and why to apply chord substitutions and blues pentatonic scales.

Course content

8 sections • 14 lectures • 1h 40m total length

Four Way Close7:21
Pages 171- 182

Chapter Seven – The Bebop Scales

The Bebop Dominant Scale

The Bebop Major Scale

The Bebop Melodic Minor Scale

Bebop Scale Licks

Piano and Arranging Stuff

Pentatonic Modes8:37
Chapter Nine Pages 193- 218

The Pentatonic Scales

The Modes and the Minor Pentatonic Scales

The I, IV, and V Pentatonic Scales on ii V I Chords

Playing Pentatonic Scales on “Giant Steps”

Pentatonic Scales and “Avoid” Notes

The II Pentatonic Scale over Major 7^th Chords

The IV Pentatonic Scale of Melodic Minor Chords

The In-sen and Other Five Note Scales

The Minor Pentatonic and the Blues Scale

Practicing Pentatonic Scales

More on chord substitutions. Part 36:21
Explore jazz chord substitutions, including alt chords and tritone substitutions, with resolutions from dominant to major seven and augmented 11, demonstrating up a fourth or down a fifth.
More substitutions (vi as V)3:11
The lecture explains the minor six harmonized as a five-seven chord, using dexterity by Charlie Parker to illustrate G7 as a secondary dominant to C minor 7 within rhythm changes.

Requirements

As with part 1 of College Level Jazz, you should have basic knowledge of music theory plus what was covered in part 1. You should be able to play an instrument with some fluency and a basic understanding of piano would be helpful.

Description

This is a continuation of the College Level Jazz Theory part 1. This course is intended to be a sequential follow up of part 1. You are building on the foundation from previous instruction. It is understood that you will have the accompanying texts: The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine and The Real Book Sixth Edition.

Who this course is for:

This course is a continuation of part 1 of College Level Jazz. If you have completed part 1 then you should continue to part 2.

College Level Jazz Theory Part 2

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Start Here1 lecture • 7min

Pentatonic Modes1 lecture • 9min

Playing the Blues using the minor pentatonic mode2 lectures • 12min

I've Got Rhythm Changes1 lecture • 12min

Reharmonization Part 12 lectures • 16min

Reharmonization Part 23 lectures • 24min

More on chord substitutions. Part 32 lectures • 10min

Anthropology Chord Analysis2 lectures • 10min

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