To deepen understanding of jazz style, 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.
• notating an entire solo including elements such as form, chord changes, pitches, rhythms, articulations, and dynamics.

Creating 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.