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 Weekly Assignment 4/21

• Listening assignment: Footprints by Wayne Shower
  
• Practice Blues for the Closet and Moanin' equally.  Work on Soloing and play Moanin' with the recording. 
  
• Memorize all music!
• Footprints -- Learn melody and practice the new scales'.  Footprints sheet music

 

 Weekly Assignment 3/17

 

• Listening assignment:  Find a recording with your instrument as a soloist.  Look to the list on the right for ideas.
• Practice Blues for the Closet and Moanin' equally.  We will be recording both.  Melody and solos!  Arc!
• Bass/Guitar -  Have your basslines and chords memorized!
• Memorize Moanin''
  

 

Weekly Assignment 3/10

• Compare two recordings of:  Moanin' and Moanin'
• Learn to playthe melody exactly as the 1st recording
• Guitar listen to the piano comping on the recordings.  Learn some of the rhythms.
• Scales! Scales!
• Improvisers -- Practice with Blues for the Closet tracks above. Keep track of the 12 measure form! Guitar/Bass play bass lines and chords with recording
• Create an arc to your solo.  Using dynamics, intensity, or range to provide motion.
  
• Critique your playing on the recording of 3/3 and 3/10

Weekly Assignment 3/3

• Review class recording above
  
• Listening assignment, find a jazz song to suggest for our third song
• Scales!  F mixolydian (dominant) F BLues, Chromatic scale, Bb Blues scale
• Improvisers -- Practice with tracks above. Keep track of the 12 measure form!

 

Weekly Assignment 2/24

• Listening Assignment:  Find a recording that is has a swing feel and is a blues. 
  
• Bass/Guitar -- Play bass line at 120, 150, 180.  Learn chords, F7, Bb7, C7
• Improvisers -- Practice with tracks above. Keep track of the 12 measure form!
• Practice the chromatic scale the whole range of your instrument.  Keep practicing F Blues Scale.  
• Play the melody of "Blues in the Closet" with youtube track .  

Weekly Assignment 2/17

• Listening assignment:  find a recording with your instrument as one of the soloists.  Remember to find out the whole band.
• Bring 5 different phrases using the blues scale
• Write out melody we learned from last week.
  

Weekly Assignment 2/3

 

• Listening Assignment or this one.  Choose either youtube video. Describe the performance and the roles of each instrument.   Email me the review
• Practice F Concert Blues Scale in the entire range of your instrument.
  
• Using the blues scale, improvise four phrases (or licks) you like.  Write them down so they are ready to play and share on Wednesday
• Send me an email your with your parents addresses
• Bring a music notebook!
• As always, if you have any questions or difficulties do NOT wait for class to ask.  Email me.

Listening Assignments

Students are expected to be listening to jazz music on a regular basis.  Weekly there is a listening assignment due.  

Email me to send your listening assignment. 

To view the jazz listening message board go here.     There are examples posted.

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A sampler list of Jazz Musicians to search for:

Trumpet: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie

Flute:  Herbie Mann

Saxophone: Wayne Shorter, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins

Trombone: Curtis Fuller, J.J. Johnson, Wycliffe Gordon, Conrad Herwig

Clarinet: Don Byron, Bennie Goodman

Piano: Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, Bud Powell, Ahmad Jamal

Drums: Max Roach, Art Blakey, Tony Williams

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Free listening venues include FM 88.3 WBGO, 89.9 Columbia University at various times, iTunes, Internet radio, YouTube, and your local public or university library (e.g. Rutgers).  

The audio to your left are just samples.  Please go to your local music store, or amazon.com, iTunes to find the complete versions of these songs.