SUNDAYS | 10:30am | Skype

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JUNE

• Major Scales, Modes & Chords > PDF
• C, G, D
  • • SLUR > ONE OCTAVE MODES. If your run out of notes going upward, drop down one octave.
    • SLUR > OUTLINING CHORDS. Slurred. Again – if you run out of notes going upward, drop down one octave.
    • Don’t clip the last note.
    • Go FAST on easy scales.

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APRIL

• ONE KLOSE EXERCISE DAILY > PLAY 2 times in a row
• Hangin’ With Peeps | PDF | YouTube
  
• Dos Muchos | PDF | Audio

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MARCH

• KLOSE > Pages 26 & 27 > Both pages!! Get your tone in shape!
• March 14 & 21 – Anthropology, Omnibook Melody & Solo | PDF
• March 7 – START on page 3 next time:  Sonny Stitt | Memorizing Rhythm Changes | PDF | YouTube | Audio

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FEBRUARY

• ANOTHER Sonny Stitt Rhythm Changes Video | YouTube

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JANUARY 24 & 31, 2021

• Captain Ferber | PDF | YouTube  | YouTube
• Fly Me To The Moon | YouTube1 | Solo 1

JANUARY 10 & 17, 2021

1. Luminescence  | PDF | YouTube | SCORE ONLINE * enlarge the score and use arrows to page back and forth
2. Heavenly Light | PDF |  YouTube1 | YouTube 2  | YouTube 3 
3. Heavenly/Luminescence | YouTube

JANUARY 3, 2021

1. CHROMATIC SCALE > EVERYDAY! PDF
2. KLOSE > Exercise #4, 12, 16 >
   1. Repeat 2-3 times.
   2. MIX it up/Rotate between those 3 exercises.
3. JAZZ SOLO
   1. 1. Phil Woods Solo, All The Things You Are
      2. SWING DRUM TRACKS
4. TWO MAJOR SCALES:   HIGH SCHOOL VERSION | 12 Major Scales Saxophone

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• ALL MINOR SCALES: PDF
  • • Sept 20 – Natural Minor | 2-3 octaves
    • Oct 18 – Melodic Minor | 2-3 octaves
    • July 16- Harmonic Minor

WESTLAKE HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC:

• JAZZ  BAND | Alto Sax
  • • TALL COTTON | YouTube
    • EniGma (for Mr. G) |  Mike Kamuf | YouTube
    • Ordinary Deviation | Sara Jacovino | YouTube
      
      
• SAXOPHONE MATERIALS
  • • CIRCLE OF FIFTHS
    • CHROMATIC SCALE
    • SAXOPHONE FINGERING CHART
    • Grand Master Scales
    • 12 Major Scales Saxophone
    • Major Scales, Modes & Chords
    • Harmonic Scales, Modes & Chords
    • Melodic Minor Scales, Modes & Chords

• CONCERT BAND | Bass Clarinet
  • • Festive Overture 
    • Joropo
    • Handel in the Strand
    • Olympic Fanfare and Theme
    • Candide | YouTube | YouTube
    • The Planets, Jupiter
    • Chester (William Schuman) | YouTube 

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CBDA 2022 | Set A > WHS Audition Music

—- Sonata in A, Benedetto Marcello | PDF
—- SCALES > SET A > PDF
—- Bb BASS & CONTRABASS CLARINET
—- Sonata in A Minor, Marcello, ed. Hite  (Southern)

• I. Adagio and Allegro: Beginning through m. 21 (learn @120)
  • • 9/13 – Allegro portion, moving the metronome @112-168 <- goal
• III. Allegro: m. 23 through End
  

PARES SCALES STUDIES
Key of D Major:  #35-45
– Take repeat
– Use your metronome. Whole notes, set to a slow tempo like 66 bpm.

SELECTED STUDIES
10/18/2020 – Page 5 | Tempo=72 for the 8th note | Try to figure out the music theory.

JAZZ IMPROV
Improv – Write the chords. Write out modes you will use for each measure/chord. Play with backing track!
Blue Bossa, Take the A Train

ALL 12 MAJOR SCALES | FULL RANGE
CIRCLE OF FIFTHS
Grand Master Scales
12 Major Scales Clarinet
NATURAL, HARMONIC, MINOR SCALES

SAXOPHONE / JAZZ

1. CHROMATIC SCALE > EVERYDAY!
2. KLOSE > Exercise #4 (page 6)
3. BIG BAND SONGS | BELOW:

• Count Bubba’s Revenge | PDF | Audio | YouTube
  • • Practice with the track at 100% speed.
    • Articulations > match the trumpets & if you can hear the altos.
    • Aggressive song > match the energy.
• Flight of the Foo Birds (Arr: Roy Phillippe) | PDF | Audio | YouTube1 | YouTube2 | YouTube3
• Shuffle Stop | Arr: Mike Kamuf) | PDF | Audio | YouTube
• Sticks | Arr: Mike Kamuf | PDF | Audio | YouTube
• Step Lightly (Mike Kamuf) | PDF | Audio | YouTube