LESSON OVERVIEW:

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  JANUARY 11, 2021

  • ADIRONDACK FESTIVAL OVERTURE | PDF | YouTube | Audio
    • • YouTube at measure #113.
        

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  • CLARINET >> Major/ Natural Minor Scales in the “Circle of 5th” pattern.
  • START on any Major Scale.
  • Play that scale up and back.
  • Walk down four-1/2 steps to find your relative minor.
    • • Or the 6th note of the major scale.
  • THEN walk down two-1/2 steps (a whole step) to find your NEXT MAJOR SCALE.
  • Keep practicing this and it will come to you without not much thought – and you will “hear it”.

SAXOPHONE ASSIGNMENTS 

CLASSICAL SAXOPHONE SOLO
Tableaux de Provence | PDF

CLASSICAL CLARINET SOLO
Concertino (G. Tartini) | PDF
I. Grave | Tempo, 8th note = 60 (or 63) | YouTube
II. Allegro Molto | Tempo + ______ | YouTube

JAZZ A | BIG BAND CHARTS
Along Came Betty | PDF | Audio | YouTube  | Drum Track (120)
Avenue 88 B | PDF | Audio
Take 5 | PDF | Audio

AHS JAZZ A – WORK ON Bb or F Blues
Val’s Blues > Cannonball Adderley | PDF | YouTube | Tempo = 112 or faster

AHS JAZZ A / Assignments from Mr. Hackett
Blues Exercises (for Alto) | PDF

AHS JAZZ TRANSCRIBING
Jackie McLean (Bb Blues) – 7:24 “Filidé” | Solo Image | Solo cued up| 2nd chorus cued up

• “JAZZ A”  SUMMER STUDY ASSIGNMENT:
• Learn 2-3 choruses of a of F Blues or Bb Blues  solo that you either transcribed or used a transcription to learn. 
• Be able to play it along with the recording.
• Join the Jazz A Remind: https://www.remind.com/join/jazzyahs
  

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  NEW: ALL MINOR SCALES | LINK

  • • 12/7/20 – Melodic Minors | 2 octaves
    • 9/7/20 – Harmonic Minors | 1 octave
    • 8/17/20 – Natural Minors | 1 octave
      

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  CHROMATIC SCALE / FULL RANGE as shown below

  • • Warm up with 6 note slur up and back a few times:  Bb1 to D#1 (loop)
    • Start with 3 note slurs. Then 6 note slurs, then 12
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• 12 MAJOR SCALES / FULL RANGE
  • • • Follow the Circle of Fifths
      • Repeat the more difficult ones a few times in a row to acquire “muscle memory”
      • Try to wean yourself off of scale sheets and the circle of fifths and play from MEMORY
      • Challenge: Play your scales, full range, starting on low Bb and go up in 1/2 steps.

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  KLOSE / 25 DAILY STUDIES

  • • Exercises:  #4, 11, 12 & 16

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  PRACTICAL STUDIES

  • • Page 9 | #16, 17
    • Page 10 | #18-20

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  PARES SCALES

  • • Exercises: #1 to 11 / “Key of C Major”

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  MEMORIZATION /  JAZZ TRANSCRIPTION

  • • JUNE 2020 – Phil Wood’s “Webb City” Transcription
    • Work out rhythm – Measures 56, 57 & 58

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  JAZZ TRANSCRIPTIONS:

  • • Jackie McLean’s “Not So Strange Blues” | Alto Solo Image | * class assignment (9/10/19)
    • Art Pepper’s “ Blue Bossa”  | Solo Image (8th/9th grade)

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  BOOKS TO ORDER:

  • • Baermann Clarinet Studies, High School Level Music > Amazon
      • • PDF … see below