Caribbean Steel Pan Music Training

Michael Jagdeo

Instructor

Code: 

ULMA01

  

Prerequisite: 

None

  

Description:

Over 2,000 years ago, the Greek Mathematician Pythagoras – ​with a lot of help from Egypt and Babylonia and India​ – recognized the underlying mathematical pattern beneath all music

ULMA01 is an in-depth introduction to becoming a Musician. This course focused on teaching the student how to PLAY music, rather than how to READ music. At the end of this course, the student will have the tools necessary to play in a gigging band by exposing the geometry underlying music theory.

Schedule:

  • Week 1: ​Orientation
  • Week 2: Major Scale​
  • Week 3: ​Minor Scale
  • Week 4: ​Tritone Chord
  • Week 5: ​Diminished Chord
  • Week 6:​ Augmented Chord
  • Week 7: ​Contrapuntal aka Counterpoint I
  • Week 8: ​Contrapuntal aka Counterpoint II
  • Week 9: ​Solos & Composing
  • Week 10: ​Solos & Composing
  • Week 11: ​Solos & Composing
  • Week 12: ​Solos & Composing

Course Requirements and Grading:

Given the objectives of the course, there will be no grading of individual musicians.