Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Learn Jazz Piano: IV. Final Topics & Two Programmed Concerts
Goldsmiths, University of London
In this final part of the course we meet 20 new tunes and another 25 in the final concerts. The topics covered include more advanced blues sequences and ballads, Latin jazz, even quavers, an introduction to other influences connected with jazz (Jazz Funk, Third Stream, Indo-Fusion, Free Jazz and Improvised Music), Special Devices - my route 4 to improvising - and a final teaching section called “Putting It Together”. This is followed by a solo piano concert and a concert from my piano trio.
7 weeks, 5 hours per week
Ray d’Inverno
Professor
Goldsmiths, University of London
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop your understanding of blues sequences and playing ballads
- Explore the jazz influences of Latin jazz, jazz funk, third stream, free jazz and improvised music
- Investigate the fourth route to improvising of special devices
- Apply your knowledge of chords to comping behind soloists
- Investigate the topics of pianistic and non-pianistic influences, musical resources including playalongs, how to learn standards by heart, how to practice, transcription, composition, group formation, recording and gig getting
- Perform many of the 75 tunes we meet in the course
- Reflect on your experiences of listening to the final solo and piano trio concerts and describe how you might integrate some of the ideas you identify into your own playing
Syllabus
- Additional blues sequences and ballads in jazz including the jazz standards “Body And Soul”, “Round Midnight” and “Blue In Green”
- Claves, Afro-Cuban tunes, Bossa Novas, Montunos, even quavers and the jazz standards “A Night In Tunisia”, “Recordame”, “Blue Bossa” and “The Girl From Ipanema”
- Intoduction to jazz funk and the jazz standards “Little Sunflower” and “Cantaloupe Island” and the other jazz influences third stream, free jazz and improvised music
- Special devices and comping and the jazz standards “Beautiful Love” and “My Romance”
- Putting it all together
- 40 minute solo piano concert by Ray d’Inverno
- 90 minute concert from the “Ray d’Inverno Trio”
Issued on 17th December 2018
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