A wide range of courses are offered at the NYU Summer Guitar Intensive. You can attend as many of the courses listed below as you want but you must have the text for the course in order to participate. You can take these courses for credit or non-credit.
Modal Theory and Application
Instructor: Pete McCann
3 points, 30 hours
July 17-August 3: M T W Th 10-12pm
Course covers all common scales used in improvisation with an emphasis on developing your own original style along with practical application.
Required book:
New York Guitar Method Volume One 40.00 USD
See Book List Page for more information.
Topics to be discussed include:
Chord Scale Relationships
Scales relationships based on aural comprehension
Modal Sequencing
Articulation
Chord and Melodic Re-harmonization using Scales
Fingering Pattern considerations
It is highly recommended that you get the books for these courses prior to attending the Summer Intensive. After receiving the books please contact Bruce for assignments to prepare yourself for the course. Mr Arnold can also recommend some books to get started with now if you want to get a jump on the summer information. Please contact him if you want to do this.
Improvising Counterpoint on Guitar
(with Study of Polymeter and Motivic Transformation)
Instructor: Dusan Bogdanovic
3 points, 30 hours
July 17-August 3: M T W Th 3-5pm
This course will involve various aspects of improvising counterpoint on guitar starting with Renaissance species studies and Fantasia form through contemporary idioms. A special focus will be on polymeter and asymmetrical meter derived from Balkan and African music as well as modal and polymodal harmonic languages. To make things still more challenging and comprehensive, I will also introduce process of motivic transformation in composition and improvisation.
Required book:
The required reading will be my book Ex Ovo (A Guide for the Perplexed Composers and Improvisers) (DO534) published by Doberman-Yppan, Canada. Optional reading will be my Polyrhythmic and Polymetric Studies for Guitar (EB3320) published by Berben, Italy.
Approach Note Theory and Application
Instructor: Bruce Arnold
3 points, 30 hours
July 17-August 3: M T W Th 10-12pm
Course covers usage of Approach Note figures in various styles of Jazz and Contemporary Music with an emphasis on developing your own original style along with practical application. Ear Training concepts are also included in this course. Many guests from the above faculty list will join in on various days to play and participate in the class
Required book:
New York Guitar Method Volume Two 40.00 USD
See Book List Page for more information.
Topics to be discussed include:
Approach Note Theory as it relates to:
BeBop
Post BeBop
Chromatic Playing
Reharmonization with Approach Note Lines
Superimposition with Approach Note Lines
Application to scales
Advanced Approach Note Concepts
It is highly recommended that you get the books for these courses prior to attending the Summer Intensive. After receiving the books please contact Bruce for assignments to prepare yourself for the course. Mr Arnold can also recommend some books to get started with now if you want to get a jump on the summer information. Please contact him if you want to do this.
Set Theory for Improvisation
Instructor: Bruce Arnold
3 points, 30 hours
July 17-August 3: M T W Th 3-5pm
Course Covers usage of various Pitch Class set combinations for soloing, comping or composition. Many guests from the above faculty list will join in on various days to play and participate in the class.
Required book:
Set Theory for Improvisation 40.00 USD
See Book List Page for more information.
Pitch Class Set theory will cover:
Integer Notation
Prime Sets
Composition, Improvisation and Chordal use of the following Pitch Class Set Types:
DiTonic
Tritonic
TetraTonic
Pentatonic
Hexatonic
Heptatonic
Octatonic
Nonatonic
Decatonic
Hendecontonic
Dodecatonic
Harmonic and Melodic Superimposition
Bi Tonal Pendulums
It is highly recommended that you get the books for these courses prior to attending the Summer Intensive. After receiving the books please contact Bruce for assignments to prepare yourself for the course. Mr Arnold can also recommend some books to get started with now if you want to get a jump on the summer information. Please contact him if you want to do this.
Rhythmic Training for Instrumentalist
Instructor: Tony Moreno
3 points, 30 hours
July 17-August 3: M T W Th 10-12pm
The classes will present a variety of rhythmic studies to develop the student's overall sense of time as both soloist and accompanist. Meter studies (both fixed and moving), metric modulation, clave/ostinato studies, tempo changes, note groupings and rhythmic subdivisions are among the topics for study. How these ideas relate to harmony and melodic construction will be discussed, as well as: the function of the rhythm section; how musicians can study these ideas together in a group setting; and how these applications may be applied to composition and improvisation.
Solo Jazz Guitar Playing
Instructor: Mimi Fox
July 17-August 3: M T W Th 4-5pm
Course description coming soon.
Jazz Guitar Technique
Instructor: Jack Wilkins
July 17-August 3: M T W Th 4-5pm
Course description coming soon.
Jazz Guitar Ensemble
July 17-August 3: M T W Th 5-6pm
Course description coming soon.
Plus Clinics and Performances by some of the Greatest New York City Guitarists
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