MARCO’S MUSIC LESSONS

* Please return 2 reeds to me next time (8/21/25)

LONG TONES ON SCALES

  • Using TE analyzer. 
  • 16 beats > 8 beats crescend / 8 beats decresend. Metronome = (60-70)
  • Goal start at ppp go to fff (30 db or more). Start with an air start. 
  • 10/9 – E Major
  • Not perfect, but a “work in progress”

AGOURA JAZZ

  • AGOURA AUDITION – 2026
      • Concert Ab, G & D
      • Prepare the Wind Ensemble Honors Requirements > Contest Caprice > PDF
      • MEMORIZE (3/4/25) > transcription from a legend > Cheesecake > PDF
      • Improvise over 1-2 choruses of a Bb Blues > (Tenor Madness) > Lead-sheet Folder > HERE
      • HS Chromatic Scale (Low Bb to high F)
      • ULTRAPOLATION EXERCISES > PAGE 52 & 53 (Stopped on #408)

AGOURA — CLARINET DOUBLES AUDITION

  • Perform a classical Etude, Concerto or an Intermediate Piece of repertoire on your instrument containing lyrical and technical passages.
  • (Clarinet is encouraged for Jazz Saxophonists.)
      • Honor Band Scale

  • Clarinet Embouchure Checklist

  • CLARINET PRACTICE LIST:
      • Long Tones > as many notes as possible > work on registers > play low then the equivalent fingering with reg key. 
      • Tone Builder & Going Over the Break > as marked > 
      • Right-Hand Preparatory Exercises > as marked> 
      • Essential Elements > Clarinet > play from Page 6 — repeating each exercise and see how far you can get. 

 

WARM-UP / MAINTAINING SKILLS

KLOSE – 25 DAILY STUDIES

  • ALWAYS REPEAT TWO to THREE TIMES in a row
      • Page 16, Exercise #14 > With articulations
      • Page 14, Exercise #12

CLARINET WORK OUT

  • 10/29 – Practical Studies (Sax book) – page 3, Exercises #1 & 2
  • 10/22 – RUSSIAN SAILOR’S DANCE > YouTube
  • ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS – PLAY as many songs in a row as you can until your mouth (embouchure) wear outs. 
  • Ab Concert scale (watch out for Eb – two with the sidekey)
  • Right-hand preparatory exercises.

 

JAZZ DUETS

TECHNICAL WORK

PARES SCALES BOOK

  • Dec 4 – Page 2. Key of C Major
  • #1 – Whole note scales @80bpm
  • Exercises #2, 3 & 4

PRACTICAL STUDIES BOOK

  • Any terms you do not understand, look at the back of this book!
      • 9/24 – REVIEW #15 > 80bpm
      • 9/24 – POLISH #16 & 17 > 80bpm

 

LINDERO MUSIC

JAZZ STUFF!

  • CHEESECAKE SOLO BY DEXTER GORDON > PDF > YouTube
  • SCALES, MODES & CHORDS > 7/3/23
  • HOW DID THESE TEENAGERS GET TO BE SO GOOD! > YouTube

TECHNICAL STUDIES / MUSICIANSHIP

  • LONG TONES > READ DISCUSSION NOTE > LINK
  • ONLINE METRONOME > LINK
  • FINGERING CHART > PDF
  • LONG TONE SCORECARD > PDF
  • CHROMATIC SCALE > PDF
      • Feb 7 – 3 note slurs with a pause. Memorize top line ending on high D fermata.

 

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