LESSON OVERVIEW:

• OCTOBER 19, 2020
• AHS Assignment / Due Dec 1
  • • Pent Up House > Chet Baker (for alto) | YouTube | Solo Image

• OCTOBER 5, 2020
• Record page 2 > Blues Licks
• Started Crosslands (clarinet) | Practice tempo = 160 (80)
• Crosslands @Measure #28 | Practice tempo = 132 — work up to 160

SAXOPHONE ASSIGNMENTS 

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

NEW: ALL MINOR SCALES | LINK
8/17/20 – Natural Minors | 1 octave
9/7/20 – Harmonic Minors | 1 octave

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.

KLOSE / 25 DAILY STUDIES
Exercises:  #4, 11, 12 & 16

PRACTICAL STUDIES
Page 9 | #16, 17
Page 10 | #18-20

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

MEMORIZATION /  JAZZ TRANSCRIPTION 
          — JUNE 2020 – Phil Wood’s “Webb City” Transcription
          — Work out rhythm – Measures 56, 57 & 58

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)