Jam Lab: Creating and Performing Jazz

Develop awareness of phrasing, swing feel, and improvisational language.

~ ii-V-I progression

~ Call and response

- Space, motives, and dynamics

~ Transcribe and improvise variations

Understand how to navigate chords and scales effectively in soloing.

~ chord tones and approach notes

~ Improvise melodic/rhythmic transformation.

~ Write a ii-V-I with voice leading

Develop rhythmic flexibility and deeper swing interpretation.

~ Explore polyrhythms

~ Delayed resolution and syncopation

~ Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter

~ Improvise using only rhythm.

Expand harmonic vocabulary beyond ii-V-I resolutions.

~ Tritone subs, chromatic approach chords.

~ Altered scale and diminished substitutions.

~ Trade using chromatic passing tones.

~ Compose a solo using substitutions.

Learn to structure solos as mini-compositions.

~ Repetition and contrast

~ Play different forms

~ Compose in the moment

~ Write a structured solo

Perform with confidence, receive feedback, and refine voice.

~ Record a prepared solo

~ Phrasing and harmonic choices

~ Practice methods

~ Comparative analysis