CUAMPF604 - Extend improvisation techniques

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Unit code: CUAMPF604 | Study level: TAFE
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to develop high level improvisation skills.

It applies to musicians who apply skills to compose or vary music ‘in the moment’ in response to stimuli. They have highly developed skills in aural awareness and in the musical practice of a chosen genre or musical tradition.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • plan and implement ways to refine own skills, and monitor skill development progress;
  • perform improvisations using a range of advanced musical techniques, and;
  • give and respond to cues during solo improvisations.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.

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