Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Coomera | Term3 | Term3 |
| Lismore | Term3 | Term3 |
Unit description
Provides the opportunity for students to consolidate their direction as musicians within their particular discipline, through advanced level performance and development of instrumental, songwriting and/or vocal virtuosity. This unit culminates in a final ‘live showcase’ event.
Unit content
Topic 1: Analysis of repertoire with a high degree of difficulty and complexity, including original compositions and songwriting and arranging. Technical etudes and exercises to establish complex melodic lines and advanced harmony. Scale syllabus (all modes, and a selection from world music scale).
Topic 2: Advanced harmonic progressions, rhythmic development techniques and repertoire development.
Topic 3: Advanced improvisation (melodic development, cyclic progressions, creative scale application, rhythmic applications). Scale syllabus from a variety of genres. Advanced stagecraft skills.
Topic 4: Scale and chord syllabus (all relevant modes, voicings and from a variety of genres) Advanced rhythmic techniques related to soloing (where appropriate).
Topic 5: Application of improvisation skills to selected repertoire. Chart reading, technical work and repertoire.
Topic 6: Application of melodic skills to selected repertoire. Chart reading, technical work and repertoire. Methods of memorisation related to complex repertoire, chart interpretation and improvisation over harmonic progressions and 1 chord modal approaches.
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | demonstrate advanced instrumental, songwriting or vocal techniques. |
| 2 | demonstrate the application of advanced instrumental, songwriting or vocal techniques to the performance of selected 'final showcase event' repertoire. |
| 3 | demonstrate a professional understanding and expertise of advanced theory and advanced musicianship skills to performance and studio practice. |
| 4 | present work in the form of concerts, compositions, recordings or other approved media. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- demonstrate advanced instrumental, songwriting or vocal techniques.
- demonstrate the application of advanced instrumental, songwriting or vocal techniques to the performance of selected 'final showcase event' repertoire.
- demonstrate a professional understanding and expertise of advanced theory and advanced musicianship skills to performance and studio practice.
- present work in the form of concerts, compositions, recordings or other approved media.
Prescribed texts
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Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Fee paying courses
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International
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