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WHAT TO PRACTICE?

  1. UPDATED >> HIGH SCHOOL CHROMATIC SCALE >> Bb1 to E3
  2. ALL 12-MAJOR & Harmonic minor scales (modes & scales)
  3. KLOSE – pick one or two to do “daily”
  4. Any Practical Studies exercise assigned. 
  5. Dexter Gordon solo – Blue Bossa > transcribe, work on memorizing. 
  6. Honor Band (classical) – solos & scales
  7. Band solos or pieces. 
  8. Modes/Scales & chords. Write out anything your not sure about. 

HONOR BAND Jazz

CONEJO CONCERT BAND / SUMMER 2025

CLARINET WORKOUT

  • Chromatic scale – C1 to C3 > 4-8 counts > Tempo=68
  • Essential Elements, book 1 — play each exercise twice in a row and go from one exercise right to the next — no stopping, unless your mouth “gives out” and cannot grip. You want to practice until your embouchure fails so you can build the proper muscles quickly and gain stamina.

 

HONOR BAND / CLASSICAL

  • Need to update to high school level

JAZZ / IMPROV SOLO SKILLS

  • 3/13/25 — BLUE BOSSA > DEXTER GORDON > YouTube
      • Transcribe and try to memorize.  😀 
  • PLAY ALONG with YouTube videos:
      • Suspone, Michael Brecker > YouTube
      • Giant Steps, John Coltrane > YouTube

FUTURE TRANSCRIPTIONS TO DO OR LEARN

  • BLUES FOR ALICE > YouTube
  • Dexter Gordon > Blues Up and Down > YouTube
  • Dexter Gordon > Blue Monk > YouTube

LESSON FOCUS

      • Long Tones to a tuner to match parallel to tuner horizontal line
      • Sightread Practical Studies
      • Check-in on VCHB audition music
  • Klose #4. Review #9 & 12
      • Watch out for articulations.
      • No breathing or hesitating at the end of each line.
      • Try some of the suggested fingerings

 

VCHB CLASSICAL HONOR BAND > LINK

      • 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

 

ONGOING – JAZZ STUDIES

 

SAXOPHONE MUSIC MATERIALS

  • CHROMATIC | PDF
      • Practice the scale in this sequence:   3-note, 6-note, 12-note slurs. Then each line in one slur. Then ALL in one slur (speed is your friend at this point)
  • MAJOR SCALE EXERCISES – FULL RANGE (DEC 2024)
      • PREP for high school audition
  • PRACTICAL STUDIES – 4/4/24
      • Page 3 & 4 > Exercises #1-5
      • Page 30 – Major Arpeggios (#1-7)
  • Circle of Fifths | PDF
  • Two Octave Scales | PDF
  • Bb concert Blues > YouTube
  • F Concert Blues > YouTube

 

JAZZ STUDIES

 

SCSBOA HONOR JAZZ 2024

SCSBOA JAZZ 2025

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