Discuss understanding of jazz style and analyze musical events within a solo or composition(e.g. introduction, shout chorus, form, dynamics, pitches, changes, articulation).

Sing and/or transcribe music through methods such as:

• call and response with the teacher (or other students);
• singing roots of the chord progression of the song;
• singing blues heads and simple jazz tunes by ear;
• singing colour tones (thirds and sevenths, ninths) over blues progressions;
• singing a solo using a single scale or mode (blues, dorian, major etc);
• singing and/or playing along with recordings of solos;
• singing the solo being studied without the guiding vocal;
• starting with short sections, such as a few bars or a single lick, gradually increasing the length and complexity being studied.

Individually and/or in groups create simple, short, three or four note jazz ideas and develop these licks by methods such as:

• sequencing;
• transforming(manipulating critical notes in a phrase to suit chord changes);
• adding single notes to the original lick(passing tones, approach tones, etc.) -ornamenting the lick;
• stylizing licks by adding turns falls, scoops, etc;
• Connecting licks with segments of scalesm, runs or ornamentations.

Use text and/or scat syllables to create jazz ideas in improvisations by:

• using conversation, and trading 4's in converstation;
• creating text over blues or other forms;
• using a variety of jazz scat syllables.

Demonstrate improvement and growth in the presentation and construction of improvised solos in a performance setting.

Take personal and musical risks by trying new ways to express oneself in the jazz idiom, using new ideas, new concepts and a variety of styles.