Explore the ability to analyze jazz music in real time while making or listening to the music.
| (a) |
Individually and in groups, with help from the teacher, identify, experiment with, and purposefully use strategies to solve different challenges related to music making. |
| (b) |
Identify common chord progressions including but not limited to blues changes in music performed and/or listened to (including progressions that break from the norm). |
| (c) |
Identify the time signature on first hearing a piece of music, in simple time signatures such as 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4. |
| (d) |
Listen to music and develop strategies to recognize aurally the time signature of the music, and when appropriate, clap on 2 and 4. |
| (e) |
Discover and apply the pattern of strong and weak beats that are identified with the above time signatures. |

Changes are intrinsic to jazz improvisation and this resource serves as an introduction to pattern-playing in jazz and as a springboard for the development of other, new patterns as they present themselves.
The accompanying CD demonstrates the examples in the book.