Today was my first time delivering a new talk about jazz harmony and rhythm – the intent of the session was to provide the tools needed for choir directors to confidently tackle vocal jazz repertoire. I called it the “Next Session” – all the topics I hadn’t had time to cover in previous vocal jazz reading sessions.
I already have notes for future presentations of this talk, but as promised, I’m posting the talk here for anyone interested. It was a massive info-dump: a semester worth of material in 50 minutes, with barely a pause to breathe. Hopefully having the materials available here will allow repeated review and internalization of the concepts.
Here are PDFs of the presentation (sorry for the animated slide wonkiness):
Thanks to all who came to talk music theory at 8am with me! Stay tuned for future presentations of the talk – new and improved!