Name of Workshop: Expanding Creativity - Through Improvisational Music

Total Hours: 2

Workshop Description: This appreciation workshop uses a practical approach to teaching improvisational music. Students “Do Not Need To Be Musicians” to take this workshop. The basic concepts that will be explored are: improvising grooves as a group, improvising

Name of Workshop: Expanding Creativity - Through Improvisational Music

Total Hours: 2

Workshop Description: This appreciation workshop uses a practical approach to teaching improvisational music. Students “Do Not Need To Be Musicians” to take this workshop. The basic concepts that will be explored are: improvising grooves as a group, improvising melodies and harmony, soloing, conducting improvisations, exploration of musical parameters (rhythm, dynamics, textural improvisation, articulation and harmony) and improvisation from non-musical sources (words, visual cues, emotions, movement). Each individual workshop is improvised based on the needs of the group and the lessons that spontaneously occur. The students will use these concepts to analyze and focus on their relationships to work, art and everyday life to recognize their own creativity. The students will perform evaluations and apply constructive criticism. (This workshop is a four part series offering)

Workshop Learning Outcomes:

Successful completion of this workshop will enable the student to:

• Discover and strengthen awareness of improvisational impulses and expand knowledge of how to express them.
• Analyze and examine fundamental aspects of music, art and improvisation.
• Employee and create individual/group awareness in improvisational and musical possibilities.
• Discuss and develop a basic common musical and verbal language.
• Demonstrate the skills necessary to use all of the above in the spontaneous creation of music, art, work and life skills.