Independently analyze jazz music in real time while making or listening to the music.
| (a) |
Individually 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, rhythm changes, AABA, II-V-I, I-VI-II-V, 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, including odd metre times such as 7/8, 7/4, 11/8, and simpler time signatures. |
| (d) |
Clap on 2 and 4 on first hearing a piece of music in an appropriate time signature. |
| (e) |
Internalize and demonstrate the pattern of strong and weak beats that are identified with the 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.