I surprisingly really enjoyed this class. Being completely honest, I have heard stories about Dr. Watson being one, very talented, and two, pretty close to the jazz instructor in Whiplash. He didn't seem like that during the class. It was cool because throughout the class everything progressed naturally and just felt like we were playing around. My other immediate thought: I needed to practice my musicianship skills. Dr. Watson knew the transpositions for every instrument in the room, his rhythm was impeccable, and his improvisation was great. From what I hear, in the jazz ensemble rehearsals he can play warm ups in different modes which is a concept I don't even quite understand myself. Seeing his knowledge made me want to increase mine.
It was interesting to see how everything we did in class related back to his teaching objectives for the class. I also liked that he had figured out how each of those goals related back to the curriculum. I thought this was interesting because I feel like we have seen so many different ways of teaching music and contemporary ideas but, haven't really seen how they fit into the curriculum that we will be required to teach. It seemed as though Dr. Watson was just enjoying his time improvising with us until he revealed what he was teaching us. Improvising, rhythm, ear training, how to assess students, aural learning, the difference between abstract and concrete themes, and also confidence when individually asking us to improvise. If this were an actual jazz ensemble or a full day workshop, it would have been cool to do some type of group work exersize with the melody that we learned. Maybe later presenting it to the class and seeing the different combinations we could have gotten. Without this though it was still a great class.
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