- Four-octave scale pathway introduction
- Chord voicing rotation
- Texture endurance
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MPW Grade 7
Intermediate Musician II
Build advanced hymn fluency, singer accompaniment and a first working jazz vocabulary.
- Open-score introduction
- Lead-sheet comping
- Intermediate first-sight continuity
- Gospel and jazz subdivision
- Anticipations
- Singer-following flexibility
- Harmonic intervals
- Progression recognition
- Melody-to-key matching
- Seventh-chord function
- ii–V–I
- Borrowed-chord introduction
- Pathway repertoire plus one cross-style work
- Advanced introductions/endings
- Singer-friendly voicings
- Three-key transposition
- Guide-tone improvisation and melodic fills
- Accompany a singer or simulated vocal track
Required evidence
Assignments
- Singer accompaniment
- Jazz vocabulary study
- Advanced hymn arrangement
Live teaching
Checkpoints
- Listening while playing
- Guide tones
- Voice leading
- Flexible tempo
Ready to progress
Exit competencies
- Accompanies a singer sensitively
- Uses seventh chords functionally
- Applies introductory jazz language