AGOURA – SUMMER ASSIGNMENT

• LEARN A BLUES TRANSCRIPTION / PRACTICE WITH YouTube Videos:
  • • Red Top / Phil Woods (F)
    • Good Bait / Phil Woods (Bb)
    • Walkin’ / Phil Woods (F)

AGOURA – SUMMER PREP FOR STUDIO JAZZ!

LEARNING STANDARDS:

• August 2025 — Standard / Transcription:  “I Remember You” > PDF > YouTube
• July 2025 — How High the Moon –
  • • Transcribing Sonny Stitt
      • Phil Woods
      • Phil Woods, another!
      • Phil Woods & Benny Carter  / Phil’s Solo
      • Sonny Stitt (1958)
      • Cannonball Adderley
      • Sonny Stitt & Art Pepper
      • Paul Desmond
      • Charlie Parker (Ornithology)
      • Patrick Bartley
      • Sonny Stitt (younger)
  • AHS / ESSENTIALLY ELLINGTON
    • • Kinda Dukish / Rockin’ In Rhythm

AHS AUDITION

• 1.  TRANSCRIPTION BY A JAZZ LEGEND
  • • • 2026 _______________________________
• 2.  REQUIRED SONG TO MEMORIZE THE MELODY & PREPARE A SOLO
  • • • 2026 _______________________________
• 3.  CLASSICAL SELECTION:
  • • LAST YEAR >> Alto > Creston Sonata > PDF
      • • With piano, Mvt 1 > YouTube
        • With piano, Mvt 2 > YouTube
    • LAST YEAR >> Clarinet > Concertino (G. Tartini) | PDF
      • • I. Grave | Tempo, 8th note = 60 (or 63) | YouTube
        • II. Allegro Molto | Tempo + ______ | YouTube
• 4. SCALES > PDF
  • • Alto
    • Clarinet 

WARMUP & PRACTICE

• 15 mins – warmup
  • • Full chromatic scale
    • Play 2 (two) Klose exercises
• 15 min – sightreading skills
  • • Selected Studies (as assigned). If you don’t have this book I will have your mom order it. 
• 1-2 hours – BEAST MODE PRACTICING
  • • “Extraordinary actions get extraordinary results!”
      • • Scales/Modes – try to do ALL 12 in one practice before moving on. You’ll naturally gain muscle memory=speed & accuracy.
        • 6/25/24 — Etudes > Selected Studies > Page 3 
        • Classical Solo
        • Memorizing Jazz Solos / ** not read – memorize.  Playing along with the track from memory. 

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SCALES & MODES > Play modes & outline chords > PDF

• ALTO & CLARINET > SCALES/MODES & CHORDS
  • • Use your chart to mark your progress.
    • Modes > Tempo = 94.
    • Chords. Triplets tempo in 3/4 = 76

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HONOR JAZZ 2027

• ALL STATE IMPROV > Rhythm-a-ning
• SCSOBA > Stella by Starlight
  • • AUDITION MUSIC
      • • I will send the backing tracks to be used only for practice. Recording with done without the tracks
          

SCSBOA HONOR CLARINET > CLASSICAL

• SONATE >
  • • II- Animato > YouTube

 

SAXOPHONE CLASSICAL SOLOS

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• HEIDEN SONATA > PDF
  • • I. Beginning to 3
    • III. Beginning to beat 4 of 2
    • Presto to 4 bars before 5/30 – Start at circle (4) to (5) – at 88bpm
    • SCALES > LINK
    • PLAYING THE WHOLE SONATA 
      • • 9/7 – page 5 (Vivace)

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  TABLEAUX DE PROVENCE> Excerpts > PDF

  • • Mvmt 1 > YouTube
    • Mvmt 2 > YouTube
    • Mvmt 3 > YouTube
    • Mvmt 5 > YouTube

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  Concerto, Glazounov (Leduc)

  • • 1 to 9 <and> 11 to 16 > PDF
      • • PRACTICE FROM THE BEGINNING with these track:
        • SOLO > YouTube
        • Orchestra acc > YouTube
        • Piano
        • Piano2

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•  CRESTON SONATA > PDF 
  • • YouTube Videos:  Mvt 1, Mvt 2 & Mvt 3
    • Piano Accom1 > Piano Accom2 > Piano Accom3

 

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SAXOPHONE MUSIC RESOURCES

• GRAND MASTER SCALES > PDF
• TWO OCTAVE SCALES > PDF
• CIRCLE OF FIFTHS > PDF
• CHROMATIC SCALE > PDF

SCSBOA 2025

• John Fedchock New York Big Band – EPISTROPHY
• The Groove Merchant – Ben Deschamps Big Band
  
• A New Day > YouTube > YouTube

Jazz Ambassadors,
Please check out the following links. Your director Tom Luer sent these for your reference as you are working on tunes for the Honor Jazz Concert. 

• Yardbird Suite…by Charlie Parker, arr. Dave Wolpe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY3MMfsMNBM
• New Day …by Sammy Nestico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl8ibblK1-k
• Groovin’ Merchant…by Jerome Richardson, arr. Thad Jones:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU-TsZ0XnRM
• Freedom Jazz Dance…by Eddie Harris, arr. Eric Richards:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQShkGZEZM
• Epistrophy…by Thelonious Monk, arr. Fedchock:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp78xJgK1u
• First Love Song…by Bob Brookmeyer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI8H-opk5Z
•  Incredible Journey…by Bob Mintzer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQfHtCQTEB8
• Oclupaca…by Duke Elington, arr. Michael Philip Mossman:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rNHoVfDqi
•  Manteca….by Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Gil Fuller, arr. Mike Tomaro / ST Louis Big Band
  https://www.jwpepper.com/Manteca/2384543.item?srsltid=AfmBOorG8MrFiRxfHSbFmZWJGVFBrw4Uw7nDMsosf6bxg2C4GSs4rH8Z

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LISMA COMPETITION

• Competition Info:  https://www.licm.edu/internationalcompetition
• Tableaux De Provence
  • • Video with Sax & Piano > YouTube
    • YouTube > 1st moment > practice with pianist (many tempos!)
    • Performance Tempo without Metronome – 0:00
    • Practice Tempo (Dotted Quarter Note = 112) – 17:58
    • Practice Tempo (Dotted Quarter Note = 126) – 21:21
    • Practice Tempo (Dotted Quarter Note = 138) – 24:20
• Creston Sonta
  • • Video with Sax & Piano > YouTube
    • YouTube > 2nd movement > practice with pianist (one nice slow tempo). ** Please note: there are some additional tempo moments of “push” & “pull” in addition to ones that are marked in the music, as common performance practices of this movement lend towards such freedom.
• VIEW Daniel’s Videos
  • • https://youtu.be/7u7MnU9zuCw
    • https://youtu.be/QKVEtbCCHC4
    • https://youtu.be/SVQd4xz4KVs

 

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CLARINET

1. ETUDES > Practical Studies (and/or) Melodious & Progressive Studies
2. CLARINET SOLO:
   • • Mozart’s K622 > PDF
     • K622 Piano Accompaniment > YouTube
       

CLARINET MUSIC RESOURCES

• GRAND MASTER SCALES | PDF
• CHROMATIC SCALE (ms) | PDF 
  
• CLARINET FINGERING CHART | PDF
  
• CLARINET MAJOR SCALES (High School level) | PDF
• GLOSSARY OF TERMS | PDF