VCHB MUSIC / LISTEN & LEARN
NEW!!! – ALL STATE FOR 2024 > SET C
- ALTO SAXOPHONE | HIGH SCHOOL | HEIDEN SONATA
- SCALES: ALL SAXOPHONE HS SCALES, SET C | coming soon
SPOTLIGHT COMPETITION
- SPOTLIGHT
- APPLY NOW
- AUDITION INFO | PDF
- PRELIM 2 LIVE AUDITION > 12/10 OR 12/11 @The Music Center
JAZZ STUDIES
- PENT-UP HOUSE
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- LEARNING ii-V-I licks (transcribe & learn in usable keys or ambitiously in all 12 keys!)
- Use Clifford Brown’s licks: https://youtu.be/4aNaP05f2FQ
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- TEA FOR TWO
- HAVE YOU MET MISS JONES (8/24)
- HOW HIGH THE MOON
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- Playing chords and worked on playing modes/partial modes.
- Using lines with chromatic note changes over the bar.
- https://youtu.be/-h-ok27VKTQ?t=1798
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- DAYS OF WINE & ROSES
- RECORDAME
- JORDU
- I GOT RHYTHM / OLEO
- LULLABY OF BIRDLAND
- TAKE THE A TRAIN
- DONNA LEE (7/27) > * Going back to Indiana
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- Transposing the lick on page 50 in all 12 keys!
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FUTURE:
- LOVE FOR SALE
REGULAR WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS
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- 2023 > HIGH SCHOOL HONOR BAND MUSIC > GLAZOUNOV > PDF
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- TWO SECTIONS: 1-9 & 11-16
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- 2023 > HONOR JAZZ / TO BE DETERMINED
- FLUTE > ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS PLAY ALONG > LINK
- SELECTED STUDIES > PAGES 10 & 11Deep Blue Sea, 2nd Alto
- GORDON GOODWIND DUETS > JAZZ POLICE & LATIN TUNE
- JAZZ TRANSCRIPTION >> Transcribing Cannonball’s version of Oleo | PDF | YouTube
- Honor Jazz Etudes
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- Improv (keep an eye out for selection)
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- Honor Concert Selection
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- Concert ScalesNEW > ALL MINOR SCALES | LINK
- 4/8/21 – Harmonic Minors
- 8/4/20 – Natural Minors
- 3/31/21 – Melodic Minors
- Concert ScalesNEW > ALL MINOR SCALES | LINK
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- Honor Jazz Etudes
- 2023 > HIGH SCHOOL HONOR BAND MUSIC > GLAZOUNOV > PDF
- JAZZ SOLOS TO LEARN / TRANSCRIPTIONS
- Learn the solos then play along with the YouTube recordings and slow the orignal track down if you have to. Then try to learn it FAST and match the soloist in speed and “style”
- 9/23/20 – Now’s the Time – Lou Donaldson (Art Blakey & Clifford Brown) | Solo Image | YouTube
- Dylan B (6th/7th grade) – Phil Woods | Have You Met Miss Jones | Solo Image
- HURRICANE CONNIE | PDF Music | YouTube | With metronome or iReal Pro (Rhythm Changes “Oleo” – Concert Bb)
- NEXT SOLO
- NEXT SOLO
- NEXT SOLO
- SELECTED STUDIES
- Page 9 > Warm-up
- Page 8 > NEW > D minor > Multiple tempos > 8th=92, 120, 140, 160, 180, 200 > metronome.online
- BIG BAND CHARTS
- NEW:
- ACRONYM BLUES | PDF | YouTube
- BARE NECESSITIES | PDF | YouTube
- BLUE TIGER | PDF | YouTube | YouTube2
- KNUCKLEBALL BLUES | PDF | YouTube
- SWING DRUM TRACKS ONLY | LINK
- Along Came Betty | PDF | Audio | YouTube | Drum Track (120
- Count Bubba’s Revenge | PDF | Audio | YouTube
- Sticks (Arr: Mike Kamuf) | PDF | Audio | YouTube
- Flight of the Foo Birds (Arr: Roy Phillippe | PDF | Audio | YouTube | Drum Track @112
- Step Lightly (Mike Kamuf) | PDF | Audio | YouTube
- SCALES: MAJOR, MINOR, CHROMATIC & MODES
