Workshop: RJS - Jazz Vocal Advanced

Join our adult jazz learning community and develop your skills and confidence while you increase your knowledge and experience and make music together in a supportive workshop setting. This exciting course is for advanced singing students to develop ideas for song arrangements and improve their mini sets and performances. This course is taught by Meredith White, the inspiring jazz pianist, vocalist, composer and songwriter. Meredith provides crucial insight into the practical experience of performing, and is able to offer support in creating lead sheets and parts for your accompanying musicians.

Course Content

You will rehearse and perform class songs and all students will get to do individual performances in each class related to the previous week?s home-work.

Sessions will include topics such as:

Vocal warm-ups
Rhythmic phrasing to bring expression to your performances
Improvisation and spontaneity in performance
Use of vocal inflections, dynamics, articulation and interpretation of lyrics
Exploring all styles, tempos and grooves including ballads, medium swing, fast swing, and bossa-nova.

Advice will be given with sourcing songs and building music repertoire using internet and mobile phone resources.