Brief Introduction
This course covers roughly the first six chapters of "The Jazz Theory Book" by Mark Levine.Description
This is a course by a musician for musicians. Included in this course are: reading assignments, printable "handouts", audio files and lecture videos. Each module contains about one week or more of information.
Below you will see a required and suggested text for this course. I advise you to get both of these texts to get the most out of this course.
Also, listed are the modules covered and the content explored.
Required text: - The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine. Sher Music Co.
ISBN 1-883217-04-0
Additional Text: The Real Book sixth edition
There are other versions of this text in Eb, Bb, Bass Clef.
Requirements
- Requirements
- Basic knowledge of music theory: note names, meters (time signatures), elementary reading ability in treble and bass clef.
- You must be able to play an instrument with some fluency. Basic understanding of piano.
- Students must have reasonable facility with an instrument