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LESSON FOCUS

12/08/24 – Band Concert Songs (Holiday Songs)
- - SANTA ON PARADE > YouTube
  - TWENTY CAROLS IN 2 MINUTES > YouTube
  - A SONG OF HANUKKAH > YouTube
  - GROOVEE > YouTube
  - BLACK FOREST > YouTube
10/13 & 10/15 – Writing out chords for “All The Things You Are” (NPHS’s 2024 jazz audition) & Klose (in binder)
10/6 – PREP FOR VCHB – using books & audition music >
- - Practical Studies (key of audition)
  - Page 15 – *** Comments: “Don’t rush”. You LOVE to rush the beat
    - - Scale exercise (76-quarter/156=8th
        
        Thirds (76=4th note /156=8th)
        
        Thirds (76=4th/156=8th)
        
        Chords (137=8th note)
  - Page 16 – Use your metronome
    - - Chromatic Exercise
        
        #24 – Tempos @80, 100, 120, 138, 160 + written articulations. Fast tempo – tap only on beat 1
        
        #25 – Tempo @90, 108, 120, 132. ON FAST tempos
  - 10/6 > Scene & Air. Playing lighter. Quick, short breath after 8th note followed by 16th pair.
9/24 >> NEW!! High School Chromatic Scale >> going to G4!!
9/15 > Scene & Air. Playing lighter. Quick, short breath after 8th note followed by 16th pair.
9/10 > Concertino > Weber > pdf music listed below
9/4 – #11 >>> WARM-UP > KLOSE #4, 11 OR 12
9/4 – TENOR – HONOR JAZZ / SWING ETUDE WORKOUT

STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE > JAZZ BOOK > LINK
JAZZ HERO > YouTube
STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE > JAZZ BOOK > LINK
IROQUOIS DANCE > LINK
- - Pentatonic scale exercises for improv > LINK
OYE COMO VA > YouTube
ROGER THE DODGER > YouTube > MP3

GROOVEE > https://youtu.be/X11_ow84nGs
BLACK FOREST > https://youtu.be/NqyO7r-JtFE
COLINA 5-NOTE SCALE CHALLENGE
- - 9/8 – Use a timer > 50 seconds
KROPESCH > Repeat 8 times – THEN play t he last measure > last note has a fermata!! > View the music: PDF
- - 9/24 – Exercises: #5, 6 >> (see below for high G fingering)
  - 9/8 – Exercise #2, 3 & 4
  - 9/1 – Exercise #1
KLOSE > page 13, #75-77 > View the music: PDF
VCHB Selections & Scales – Sept 1, 8
PRACTICAL STUDIES – Sightreading & Reading Skills
- - 10/1 – PAGE 25 – #44 >> REDO. Count & clap
  - 9/29 – Page 23 – G concert (A Major)
  - 9/24 – Exercise #29 > Tempo = 88 > Go for accuracy & steady rhythm
  - ~~9/8 – Exercise #32~~
  - ~~9/8 – Exercise #38 — work on this / review~~
  - 9/8 – Exercise #43 — work on this / review
Go over HS audition material > clarinet solo

CLARINET:
- - USE THE “1-2-1” pattern — or — SCALES/MODES (8.25.24)
  - Check your key signature before playing
  - 6/16 – CLARINET > Concert F, C, G, D, A, E, B
  - 6/24 – CLARINET > Concert Ab, Db, Gb
  - COLINA 5-NOTE SCALE CHALLENGE
    - - TIMES NOTED: 0:56 / 1:01 / 1:14. / 1:27 / 1:41
TENOR SAX
- - SCALE/MODES & CHORDS
    - - 7/1 – Concert Bb, F, C

SCALES – SET D (2021) – Ab & C Major > LINK
- - CHROMATIC > 3, 6 & 12 note slurs > ONE LINE SLURS > The WHOLE ENCHILADA!
2025 HONOR BAND – SCENE & AIR
- SCSBOA 2024-25 – SET D > Scene and Air M. Bergson
- Allegro Brilliante: m. 11 to beat 1 of m. 34 > YouTube
- Coda: Beginning (no pickup) to beat 1 of measure 17 > YouTube

ETUDES (Swing, Ballad & Latin/Samba) > LINK
IMPROV – F BLUES: Record 2-4 solo choruses of F Blues using the changes provided on the SCSBOA website.
- - This can be recorded with a live rhythm section of your choice or using the play-a-long
    recording, but it must be accompanied. Tempo should be approximately 1/4 note=120 bpm and
    played in the swing style.
CHROMATIC SCALE:
- - Play your chromatic scale (1/8th notes @ 100 bpm or faster) from your lowest to highest
    comfortable note. This should be played in a legato style (slurred) all the way up and
    down.

SIGHTREADING
- - 9/1 –
    - - Page 13, #18, 19 & 20 — sightread well
      - Page 16, #24 @96bpm
      - Page 17, #28 @76bpm

Page 3 – 4/25/24
- - Exercise #6 – watch out for high notes
  - Exercise #7 – 8th notes = 90 (recorded on your cell phone on 4/25/24)
Page 4 – 4/25/24
- - Exercise #8 – 8th notes = 90
  - Exercise #9 – 8th notes = 84

- - I. Allegretto: Beginning to m. 22 > Solo > Backing Track
  - II. Allegro animato: Beginning to m. 02 > Solo > Backing Track
  - IV. Molto allegro: m. 4 to beat 1 of m. 20 > Solo1 > Solo2 > Backing Track
SCALES:
- - A major + F# melodic minor
  - Db major + Bb melodic minor
  - Chromatic Scale: E1 to G4

- - JAN 30 – Exercise #4 > LINK
  - JAN 30 – Exercise #2. Mid staff to low & high

CLARINET MUSIC RESOURCES