M-JP-RLB4

Theory Classes

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8

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One 40-minute class per week

20 hours. If there are fewer applications for this subject than indicated in the description, it will typically proceed with proportionally less contact time (and accordingly more individual attention per student), but in case of on-campus classes never with fewer than 3 students.

64 hours

Completion of Rhythm Lab 3. This subject can also be followed by online CFT students.

See Competencies Matrix.

Learning to interpret and play extreme complex rhythms from various musical idioms within or related to the jazz, pop and Latin domains.
Building a ready repertoire of multi-voice rhythmic fragments.
Developing the ability to improvise over complicated rhythmic models and with out of the ordinary cross-rhythms.
Developing advanced polyrhythm.

This module is related to the main subject module as well as the theory modules.
Please note that this elective module is included in this module description only out of practical considerations, as its contents are closely linked to the preceding module Rhythm Lab 3.

Notating demonstrated (played and/or sung) monophonic and multi-voice rhythmic fragments.
Goal-note improvisation, in which a number of predetermined elements must be incorporated into an improvisation of four, eight or twelve bars.
Playing two or four bar jazz and Latin rhythms, which shift one eighth note on each repetition.
Playing cross-rhythms in 3/4 and 4/4 alternated with improvisation.
Playing metric modulations (quarter notes to half notes, or triplet quarter notes to regular quarter notes, etc.).
Further deepening knowledge of and playing of Latin music:
Singing clave patterns while playing basic bell patterns, advanced son, 12/8 rhythms, odd meters and complex rumba rhythms on congas.

Lab classes. This subject cannot be taught in mixed on-campus/online groups.

Study materials and exercises designed by instructors.

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Written assessment by the instructor at the end of the first semester and an exam at the end of the second semester.

Students demonstrate their command of the elements described under Content.

The student has completed this module if being awarded a minimum grade of 5.5. Assessment at the end of the autumn semester is formative and expressed in terms of satisfactory/unsatisfactory. It indicates a student's progress in this module. No ECs are awarded and there is no resit. Modules can only be absolved, and ECs awarded, after the end of the spring semester.

At the end of the first semester, the teacher gives a written assessment. At the end of the second semester, students take a written and oral exam.

See the Education and Assessment Plan.