LESSON OVERVIEW
- MAJOR SCALES > FULL RANGE
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- 12/2 – Prepping for Agoura Audition & maintaining overall skills
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- RECORD > FRIED BANANAS > PDF > YouTube
- KLOSE – BUILDING GOOD TONE
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- 10/7 – Review one and learn a new one
- 9/30/24 – Exercise #6
- 8/26/24 – Exercise #4
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- MODES & SCALES – PDF
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- 9/16 – Reviewed scales below – and added –
- 9/2 – C major, G major, D major, F major
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- JAZZ DUETS
FIRST PRACTICAL STUDIES:
- 9.30.24
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- SIGHTREADING QUIZ > PAGE 16. #32
- 3 PART LEARNING > EXERCISE #42 (68bpm)
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- Click & Count.
- Then click & count silently.
- Then play
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- MAY 5
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- Page 7, #12. Tempo = 84bpm or more. Repeat difficult sections. Run some loops at measure 23 & 25.
- Page 8, #13. Tempo = 84bpm. Click & count.
- Page 8, #14. Tempo=80bpm. Click & count. You need to click/play marked measure 4x’s in a row – AND – play 4x’s in a row. If not — there’s a penalty to repeat until you get it.
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PARES SCALES
- FEB 5:
- Exercises #5-8 – please review and practice every day along with your long tones.
SCSBOA CLASSICAL HONOR BAND > LINK
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- Adagio and Allegro G.F. Handel
- Concert & Contest Collection for “TENOR SAXOPHONE”
- Beginning to end of m.12
- Allegro (m. 20) to end of m. 50
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OVERVIEW
- LONG TONES > READ DISCUSSION NOTE > LINK
AGOURA HS AUDITION
- CHROMATIC SCALE
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- Intermediate (D1 to D3)
- Advanced: Bb1 to E3
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- SCALES
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- JAZZ B: Please prepare the Concert Ab, G and D Major the full range of your instrument
- JAZZ A: Check audition list for required scales (major & melodic)
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- LEGIT SOLO: AHS & LAYPO 2025
- Jazz II (Jazz A) (Winds, Bass & Guitar)
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- Wind players: complete the classical audition requirements for Wind Ensemble II or Honors: CONTEST CAPRICE
- Perform 1-2 choruses of a solo to the tune __________________ (to be determined) – Lead Sheet and/or play along track will be posted soon!
- Prepare two choruses of a Bb blues solo on Tenor Madness. (Tenor Madness Lead-sheet Folder HERE)
- TRANSCRIBE CHAD LB > YouTube
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MAJOR SCALES >
- Use the Grandmaster Scales (inside your Klose book).
PARES SCALES
- FEB 5:
- Exercises #5-8 – please review and practice every day along with your long tones.
ADVANCED MUSIC FOR AMBITIOUS MUSICIANS:
LINDERO MUSIC
- DANCE TO THE MUSIC
- FEELING GOOD
- SHACKELFORD BANKS
- CANTALOUPE ISLAND
- CENTERPIECE
- Solo > https://youtu.be/fLKm4DSlEXY?t=49
- PETER GUNN > Practice your solo to this track > YouTube
- THE CHANT
- NIGHT IN TUNISIA
- BOOGIE STOP SHUFFLE
- Boogie Stop MP3
- GHOST WRITER
- ROMPE CABEZA SOLO > PDF > MP3
MUSIC THEORY & FOUNDATION
SCALES: MAJOR, MINOR, CHROMATIC & MODES
- COMPLETE CHROMATIC SCALE | PDF
- MAJOR SCALE STUDIES
- Circle of Fifths | PDF
- Two Octave Scales | PDF
- Grand Master Scales | PDF
- ALL MINOR SCALES | PDF
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- Natural Minor
- Harmonic Minor
- Melodic Minor
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