ANI’S MUSIC PAGE

• CBDA — All High School auditions must be uploaded, approved, and submitted for judging by the director by 9:00 PM on October 15, 2026.
• SCSBOA — High School & Jazz Deadline: 5:00 PM – November 5, 2026

---

REAL BOOK – LEARNING TUNES

• Analyzing songs > practicing scales & modes based on the songs > then play it!
  • • 1/23/26 – Take The A Train > A, D, E major & whole tone scale
    • 1/9/26 – Blue Bossa > C major + A harmonic + Bb Major (complete)
    • 1/9/26 – Have You Met Miss Jones > D major, G major, Eb major, B major > learn D# dim scale (next time)

---

ALTO SAXOPHONE

• Concerto, Glazounov (Leduc)
  • • Work on tonguing. Tapping your tongue on the reed. 
    • Learn fast sections — SLOW and beautifully! Then the final product is more solid
    • Excerpt #1 — 1 to 9
    • Excerpt # 2 — 11 to 16
    • YouTube > LINK
    • Piano backing track > LINK
• Jazz > LINK

---

TENOR SAXOPHONE

• OPEN
• Jazz > LINK

---

TECHNICAL STUDIES

• KLOSE BOOK – #22 (page 24), #4 & #11.
  • • Play the whole page non-stop as best as you can – or work up to it. Takes a LOT of air!
    • Work on tonguing. Make sure your tongue is making contact with the reed. “Tip of the tongue on the tip of the reed.”
• MODES & SCALES > 9/19/25

---

JAZZ STUDIES

• SHAW NUFF / Charlie Parker / Phil Woods
• Transcribing Phil Woods solo on YouTube. Slow the track down if you need to. > LINK

---

JCM AUDITION

• J.S.Bach – Arioso from Cantata 156 (Sinfonia)
• Sonata No3 – Handel (violin)
• One page exercise – #4 (klose). Play the whole page non-stop as best as you can – or work up to it. Takes a LOT of air!
• Work on tonguing. Make sure your tongue is making contact with the reed. “Tip of the tongue on the tip of the reed.”
  

---

HONOR BAND

• If interested, here is the SCSBOA JAZZ audition music > ALTO > BARI > TENOR > IMPROV materials