1. Non common practice combinations of added tones 2. Polytonality (including use in a tonal context) 3. Non-diatonic bass tones (slash chords on the border of polytonality) 4. Pandiatonicism 5. Modal techniques in composition and improvisation 6. Twentieth Century contemporary music as a mine of ideas for Jazz and Contemporary Music 7. "Directed Compositional Exercises" - a series of compositions based on different parameters of contemporary music, mixed with forms and techniques associated with Jazz. 8. Intervallic structures - used as chords and lines. Jeff's book "Shapes - Intervallic Studies for Melodic Instruments", will be used to exemplify these techniques in a jazz context. Piano Master Class 1. Technique in double notes - based on modes, cycles, cadences, with 2 notes in each hand2. Counterpoint in jazz piano - tonal, modal, and polytonal3. Voicings in fourths and fifths4. Crossed hand Voicings5. Individual commentary on selected students' playing and conception6. Application of different instrumental conceptions to the piano - i.e. - the piano as wind instrument, the piano as percussion instrument, the piano as orchestra7. Brazilian rhythms applied to the piano8. Different "swing" feels9. Creative ways to practice scales
Jazz Piano Creative Concepts And Techniques Jeff Gardner
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