AHS “JAZZ-1 / STUDIO” AUDITION
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- Wind Ensemble Honors Requirements.
- IMPROV – ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE
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- From memory, play the melody to All The Things You Are
- Improvise 1-2 choruses over the chord changes using transcribed licks.
- Link to Sheet Music: All The Things You Are
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- MEMORIZED TRANSCRIBED SOLO:
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- Weeja > PDF DOWNLOAD > YouTube
- 1 unaccompanied chorus by someone on your instrument
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- Bb BLUES: Improvise over 1-2 choruses
LESSON OVERVIEW
- WARM-UP
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- CHROMATIC SCALE & 1-KLOSE ETUDE (play 2-3 times in a row)
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- THE REAL BOOK!
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- Analyze chords using scales/modes charts
- Think about playing in “key signatures” when sightreading
- Play / jam w/iRealpro or YouTube backing tracks.
- Optional – transcribe or memorized a transcribed solo of a jazz legend
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- BLUE BOSSA – 12/21/25
- TAKE THE A TRAIN – 1/18/26 > YouTube
- The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
- Have You Met Miss Jones
- All The Things You Are (Studio 2027)
- There Will Never Be Another You
- OVERTONES – 11/30/25
- SCALES & MODES
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- 9/22 – Harmonic – A, D, G
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- PARES SCALES
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- Pages 20-22. Ab Major Scale Exercises
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- KLOSE – BUILDING GOOD TONE
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- 02/01/26 – Page 17, #15
- 11/30/25 – Page 9, #7
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- SLOMINSKY – Page 16 – #72
- PROGRESSIVE STUDIES
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- 11/9 – C Major (62-bpm) & A Minor Studies (58-bpm)
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- MODES & SCALES – PDF
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- C major, G major, D major, F major
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- JAZZ DUETS
- FIRST PRACTICAL STUDIES
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- As marked in your book
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- OVERVIEW: LONG TONES > READ DISCUSSION NOTE > LINK
AGOURA HS
- AHS JAZZ B BAND ARRANGEMENTS:
- AHS – BLUES EXERCISE
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- 10/27 – Transpose some Bb blues licks to F
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- SUMMER ASSIGNMENT > TRANSCRIBE Bb Blues
- SCALES
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- JAZZ B: Please prepare the Concert Ab, G and D Major the full range of your instrument
- CHROMATIC SCALE
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- CLASSICAL SONATA OR CONCERTO
- Jazz II
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- Wind players: complete the classical audition requirements for Wind Ensemble II or Honors: CONTEST CAPRICE
- Prepare two choruses of a Bb blues solo on Tenor Madness. (Tenor Madness Lead-sheet Folder HERE)
- Perform a solo by a jazz legend:
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- 3/3/25- “MEMORIZED” – FRIED BANANAS > PDF > (cued) YouTube
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ADVANCED MUSIC FOR AMBITIOUS MUSICIANS:
LINDERO MUSIC
- DANCE TO THE MUSIC
- FEELING GOOD
- SHACKELFORD BANKS
- CANTALOUPE ISLAND
- CENTERPIECE
- Solo > https://youtu.be/fLKm4DSlEXY?t=49
- PETER GUNN > Practice your solo to this track > YouTube
- THE CHANT
- NIGHT IN TUNISIA
- BOOGIE STOP SHUFFLE
- Boogie Stop MP3
- GHOST WRITER
- ROMPE CABEZA SOLO > PDF > MP3
MUSIC THEORY & FOUNDATION
SCALES: MAJOR, MINOR, CHROMATIC & MODES
- COMPLETE CHROMATIC SCALE | PDF
- MAJOR SCALE STUDIES
- Circle of Fifths | PDF
- Two Octave Scales | PDF
- Grand Master Scales | PDF
- ALL MINOR SCALES | PDF
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- Natural Minor
- Harmonic Minor
- Melodic Minor
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