Courses

Online personal courses available at Orchestral
Arranging & Composition - all tutoring and courses are designed around your personal musical development and run at your pace.

Theory and Harmony

It is presumed that potential students will already possess sufficient knowledge of the basics of theory and harmony (note names, scales, chord structures and harmonic principles) to embark on this study and to comprehend the tutor’s comments.

However further, on-going tuition from stage 1 to Advanced, is available on request.

During your preliminary discussion your level of theoretical and harmonic knowledge can be established. Those in need of more advanced skills may wish to incorporate theory tuition as part of their regular session. This could include: The modes and scales; extension of basic triads and 7ths chords to incorporate extensions (9, 11, 13 and variants of these); applicable modes for all chord types; construction and application of ‘upper structure triads’; advanced concepts such as modal interchange, etc.


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Planning and Creating an Arrangement

Through analysis of a variety of works by the instructor and significant experts in the field, students will gain comprehension of the processes in creating arrangements of both existing works and personal cmpositions. For example, one might study Count Basie’s highly effective ‘Lil Darling’ with it’s very simple introduction and ending, or Maynard Fergusson’s frantic ‘Birdland’
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Reharmonisation Techniques

Reharmonisation, whether simple or complex, plays a major role in the creation of contemporary Big Band jazz compositions and arrangements. This can range from gentle shifts in tonality to complex total reharmonisations. Examples can be found in my own works on-line here.
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Course fees

NZ $90.00 per hour session. ($72.00 with discount)

NZ $50.00 per half hour session. ($40.00 with discount)

(High School student costs by arrangement).

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