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Lesson 1: Introduction to Form and Structure
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Blues Melody: Expanding the Pentatonic Scale

Lesson 2: Stretching the Blues

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A Structure to Build On
For-credit tuition: $1,400
The Turnaround Non-credit tuition: $1,200
Add 6 CEUs: $25.00
A Chromatic Approach to I7
Credits: 3
Target Chords and Functional Substitutions
Duration: 12 weeks
New Functions
Catalog #: BMW-195
Embellishing Secondary Dominants
Tritone Substitution of Dominants
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Modal Interchange

Lesson 3: What Comes First—Chords, Melody or Rhythmic Style? Joseph Mulholland

Associate Professor of
Momentum Harmony and Chair of
the Harmony
Adding a Secondary Dominant
Department at Berklee
Creating a Compelling Progression College of Music.
Creating a Functional Map
The Jazz "Kaleidoscope"—Using Tensions to Add Color

Lesson 4: Structure and Form—AABA

Sonata Form
ABA Variations
The Bridge
Rhythmic Style for Contrast
Getting There, and Getting Back Again: Pivot Chords

Lesson 5: Melody, Part 1: The Motive

Repetition
Repetition with Variation
Sequence
Inversion
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Lesson 6: Melody, Part 2: AA´ Form

Melodic Development: Augmentation and Diminution

Intervallic Augmentation
Melodic Development: Rhythmic Variation
AA´ form

Lesson 7: Blues with a Bridge

More Reharmonization of Blues, Part I

Jazz / Blues Melody
Contrasting Bridge
Minor Blues
The Minor Blues Turnaround

Lesson 8: The Jazz Ballad

Melodic Contour
Melodic Development: Retrograde
The Silhouette
Richer Chord Colors
The Score Mixing Process in Depth
Recording and Mixing Score Music

Lesson 9: Tunes in 3/4

A New Feel
Tunes in 3/4: Triple Meter
6/8 or 3/4
More Contrast at the Bridge: Closely Related Keys
Tonic Circle Vamps

Lesson 10: Modal Tunes

Modal Families: The Major Sounding Modes

Minor Modes
Modal Progressions
Modal Melodies

Lesson 11: What Moves You: Swing, Bossa Nova, Funk?

Expanding Harmonice and Melodic Frontiers

Odd Meters
Songs in 5/4
Sequencing a I7 II7 Tonic Vamp Over 5/4

Lesson 12: Back to the Source: Inspiration!

Using Funny, Quirky, and Evocative Titles as Compositional

Inspiration
Using Rhythms from Daily Life
Using Pitches from Daily Life
Writing a Five-Beat Melodic Motive that Sounds Major

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