JAN 206-01 - Extreme Musicianship: Musical Literacy on Steroids

Course Times: 9:15am - 11:55am

Course Fee: $20

Instructor(s): Lino Rivera

Email: lrivera@stmarys-ca.edu

Our quest to better ourselves as musicians requires more than passion and practice. We must also work to advance those skills that support our music making, largely our notereading facility and our ears-for pitch, rhythm, and chords. This course addresses these latter skills, known as musicianship. In sum, upon completion of this curriculum, each student will be a much stronger musician. Like most skills-acquisition courses (such as language courses), the class materials will be presented in small, easily digestible bits. No individual morsel will be very difficult, but the material absolutely cannot be crammed. It is imperative that each student work hard every day to master each small skill or piece of information as it is presented.

Prerequisites & Notes
MUSIC 100, or private music lessons, or AP Theory in high school, or music performance experiences

Credits: 3