TENOR SAXOPHONE ASSIGNMENTS
Zoom | 4:30-5:15pm
- WARM-UP > KLOSE > #14 & #13
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- PLAY TWICE > SLOWER, MORE RELAXED MANNER. MORE MUSICAL.
- IDENTIFY MINOR SCALES & CHORDS ANALYZING REPETITIVE NOTES/PHRASE/IDEAS/MEASURES.
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- DEXTER GORDON TRANSCRIPTIONS > MEMORIZED
- JIM SNIDERO / INTERMEDIATE JAZZ CONCEPTION
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- JULY 7 – SPLANK STREET > MP3
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- HARMONIC MODES & CHORDS
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- Harmonic Minors > Scales & Modes > PDF
- Keys completed: D, G, C, A, E, B
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- HONOR BAND JAZZ ETUDES
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- Ha
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- SCALES/MODES & CHORDS
- LONG TONES with an “AIR START“.
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- Don’t tongue notes.
- SLOW to fast air.
- Tempo=60 / USE SCORECARD
- Hold out until you’re blowing dust. SQUEEZE!!!!
- Take in MORE air!!
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- GIAMPIERI
- MELODIOUS STUDIES
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- MAY 14 > Page 6, Exercise 11 > Ab Major > TEMPO=104
- MAY 14 > Page 7, Exercise 12 > F Minor > TEMPO = 80 for the 1/2 note
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- * Alla breve – also known as cut time or cut common time – is a musical meter notated by the time signature symbol, which is the equivalent of. The term is Italian for “on the breve”, originally meaning that the beat was counted on the breve. Alla breve is a “simple-duple meter with a half-note pulse”
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- KLOSE | 25 DAILY STUDIES
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- 07/14/2021 > #13 > Play 2x > Steady beat.
- 03/05/2021 > #21 – Two pages. Allegro vivo
- 01/15/2021 > #22 – Two Pages!
- 01/08/2021 > LEARN: Exercise #19 > Tempo=108, 112, 116 or ?
- 01/08/2021 > REVIEW: Exercise #18 > Tempo=152 > in 3/4 time
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MINOR SCALES | LINK
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- 4/2 – Natural Minors > FULL RANGE
- 4/30 – Harmonic Minors > FULL RANGE
- 7/24 – Melodic Minors > Only 1 or 2 octaves
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- NPHS JAZZ SONGS
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- Lullaby of Birdland | PDF | YouTube
- Sunny Side of the Street | PDF | Audio
- Third Bass Line | PDF | SOLO AUDIO | AUDIO
- Tempo=160 … work up to 180
- Recordame (Mike Kamuf) @126, 132, 138, 144, 152 | PDF | YouTube
- WRITE A NEW SOLO for the 2nd chorus!
- Watermelon Man (review & check). Watch out for measure #64
- Clicking the rhythm for W. Man from measure 70+
- Bob Mintzer (PDF) > Dorian Exercise #1 > Play with tracks I sent (80 & 100bpm)
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- NEWBURY PARK HS JAZZ
- Third Bass Line | PDF | AUDIO
- Flight of the Foo Birds | MP3
- Watermelon Man | PDF | YouTube | Dexter Gordon solo on YouTube
- Recordame (Mike Kamuf) @126, 132, 138, 144, 152 | PDF | YouTube
- WRITE A NEW SOLO for the 2nd chorus!
- Bob Mintzer | Playing the Changes | PDF | audio
- NPHS – COMBO SONGS TO LEARN
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- Eternal Triangle | PDF | YouTube | Sonny Rollins Video Solo
- Way Out West | Sonny Rollins book
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CBDA JAZZ | PDF – ALL ETUDES
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- 9/11 – Swing Etude | MP3
- 9/11 – Latin Etude | MP3
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HARMONIC MODES & CHORDS
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- Harmonic Minors > Scales & Modes > PDF
- Keys completed: D, G, C, A, E, B
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- Jim SNIDERO JAZZ BOOK > EASY JAZZ CONCEPTIONS
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- LINK FOR ALL TRACKS: click here
- Bird’s Backyard | Tempo = 144 & 168 | Track 13 | Track 30 | Swing Drum Track
- “US” – Watch out for rhythm & feel.
- “Love is Easy” – Practice with a swing track from my website & the backing track.
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- JAZZ TRANSCRIPTION | TAKEDOWNS:
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- Dexter Gordon | Billie’s Bounce | Solo Image | Play with YouTube Recording
- Dexter Gordon | Billie’s Bounce | Solo Image | Play with YouTube Recording
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- JAZZ TRANSCRIPTIONS | WRITTEN TRANSCRIPTIONS
