“Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment,“ a jazz clinic by Mike Titlebaum

“Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment,“ a jazz clinic given at the 2012 NYSSMA conference by Mike Titlebaum, director of jazz studies at Ithaca College. In this session, attendees practice embellishing a common melody (“When the Saints Go Marching In“) using straightforward melodic techniques such as passing tones, neighbor tones, and more complex techniques such as double neighbors and chromatic embellishment. Later in the session, the same techniques are applied to learning another jazz st