2 cursos gratuitos de Berklee en Coursera, inicio 13/10/14

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Developing Your Musicianship
Part of the "Modern Musician" Specialization »
Learn the basic concepts and approaches needed to understand, create, and perform contemporary music.

Course Syllabus
Lesson 1: Major Scale
Defining Harmony, Ear Training, and Intervals; Constructing and Singing the Major Scale; Major 2nd and Major 3rd Intervals; Finding the Tonal Center
Lesson 2: Major and Minor Triads
Review; Perfect 4th and Perfect 5th Intervals; Building Major and Minor Triads; the I IV V Chord Progression
Lesson 3: Minor Pentatonic Scale
Review; Major 6th and Major 7th Intervals; Building and Singing the Minor Pentatonic Scale
Lesson 4: Major and Dominant Seventh Chords
Review; Building Major and Dominant Seventh Chords; Blues Progression
Lesson 5: Song Form
Review; 7-3-5 Chord Voicings; 4/4 and 3/4 Time Signatures; Blues and AABA Song Forms; Chord Sheets
Lesson 6: Review
Review of All Material; Composing a Blues Riff Tune Using the Minor Pentatonic Scale

Recommended Background
The ability to play an instrument is helpful but not required. You should have a passion for music and a strong interest in developing your understanding of music and ability to create it.

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Jazz Improvisation
Learn the basic concepts of improvisation from Gary Burton, one of the most renowned improvisers in the jazz world, including the mental, melodic, and harmonic processes that contribute to the instinctive skills that an improviser puts to use when taking a solo.

Course Syllabus
Lesson 1: Improvisation as a Language
This lesson explores how improvisation uses our language abilities to construct logical melodic phrases. It introduces the concept of musical speech with vocabulary and grammar, when applied to improvisation.
Lesson 2: The Improviser’s Vocabulary

This lesson examines the use of chord outlines. It identifies the most commonly occurring chord scales and how to practice them in order to assimilate them.
Lesson 3: Making Scale Choices in Real Time

This lesson introduces a set of guidelines for determining the correct choices for scales in various harmonic situations.
Lesson 4: Harmony for the Improviser

In this lesson, you will learn about the different types of harmony movement and resolution, and how the improviser uses them when playing through the different types of chord progressions.
Lesson 5: Theme and Variation

In this lesson, you will learn about theme development and establishing continuity of melodic phrases and ideas to build musical story lines as a basis for improvisations.

Recommended Background
You should have at least an intermediate level of playing ability on your instrument, basic note reading experience, a knowledge of chord symbols (C7, Gm7, F7b9, Abm7, for example) and should, at a minimum, have tried improvising on some basic songs such as 12-bar blues or some familiar standard tunes.

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