Here's an outline of topics your teacher can cover with you depending on your level of ability.

• Intervals
  • Simple intervals
  • Compound intervals
• Scales
  • Major scales
  • Minor scales (emphasis on the ascending melodic minor scale)
• Triads
  • Major triads
  • Minor triads
  • Diminished triads
  • Augmented triads
  • Inversions of all triads
• Repertoire
  • The twelve bar-blues form
  • The blues scale
• Rhythmic concepts
  • Swung eighths
  • Straight eighths
  • Practicing with the metronome on beats 1 and 3

• Modes/Scales
  • Modes of the major scale
  • Modes of the ascending melodic minor scale (emphasis on the "altered" scale)
  • Chord scales
  • "Modal" playing
  • "Triadic" playing
• Harmony
  • Major seventh chords
  • Minor seventh chords
  • Dominant seventh chords
  • Minor major seventh chords
  • Half diminished chords
  • Fully diminished chords
  • Inversions of all seventh chords
  • The "ii V I" progression
  • The "iii vi ii V" turnaround
• Repitore
  • Standards
• Rhythmic Concepts
  • Practicing with the metronome on beats 2 and 4
  • Rhythmic counterpoint

• Bebop and Chromaticism
  • Approaching chord-tones by step
  • Pentatonics
  • Intervalic playing
  • Melodic counterpoint
  • Playing "outside" the changes
  • "Free" playing
• Harmony
  • Substitutions
  • Poly tonality
  • Passing chords
  • Pedal points
  • Pedal points
• Repertoire
  • Learning standards in different keys
  • Composition
• Rhythmic concepts
  • Odd meters
  • Poly meters
  • Poly rhythms
  • Rhythmic modulation
  • Changing meters
  • Practicing with the metronome on different parts of the beat
• Ear Training
  • Transcription and analysis
  • Sight singing