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MPW Grade 7

Intermediate Musician II

Build advanced hymn fluency, singer accompaniment and a first working jazz vocabulary.

Technique
  • Four-octave scale pathway introduction
  • Chord voicing rotation
  • Texture endurance
Reading
  • Open-score introduction
  • Lead-sheet comping
  • Intermediate first-sight continuity
Rhythm
  • Gospel and jazz subdivision
  • Anticipations
  • Singer-following flexibility
Aural
  • Harmonic intervals
  • Progression recognition
  • Melody-to-key matching
Theory
  • Seventh-chord function
  • ii–V–I
  • Borrowed-chord introduction
Repertoire
  • Pathway repertoire plus one cross-style work
Hymns
  • Advanced introductions/endings
  • Singer-friendly voicings
  • Three-key transposition
Improvisation
  • Guide-tone improvisation and melodic fills
Performance
  • Accompany a singer or simulated vocal track

Required evidence

Assignments

  1. Singer accompaniment
  2. Jazz vocabulary study
  3. Advanced hymn arrangement

Live teaching

Checkpoints

  1. Listening while playing
  2. Guide tones
  3. Voice leading
  4. Flexible tempo

Ready to progress

Exit competencies

  1. Accompanies a singer sensitively
  2. Uses seventh chords functionally
  3. Applies introductory jazz language
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