Wednesday: Drums, Piano, and Guided Transcription

1. Etude Writing Time

2. Dave Fodor presentation

3. Lunch

4. Rhythm scatting call and response

5. 2 and 3 note shell voicings on piano (3,7,9 | 7,9,13)

6. Voicings through the Blues in multiple keys

7. ii-V-I progression in multiple keys

8. LATIN R AND 5

9. 2 FEEL

10. FOUR RULES OF WALKING BASS LINE

11. Choose a Guided Transcription

12. Start transcribing

Monday: Style and Improv Pt. 1

1. Introductions

2. Course Overview

3. Getting Students Hooked on Jazz

4. DRILLS

5. Active Listening

6. It Could Happen To You Etude By Ear

7. Jazz Style

8. Jazz Sight Rhythms

9. Twisted C  Twisted Bb

10. Blues Call and Repeat

11. Essential Music Theory: Major Scales and 7th Chords

12. I IV V Blues: Roots, Thirds, Sevenths

13. Ornamenting Target Tones

14. Lap Drumming: Rock

Tuesday: Style and Improv Pt. 2

1. Noteflight

2. One step blues etude

3. Two step blues etude

4. Choose your own blues

5. Single Serving Licks

6. Tunes

7. Jazz standard etude

8. Drum and drone ear training for chord tones

9. Modes

10. Modal workout with jazztab

11. C dorian workout

12. So What

13. Guided Solo transcriptions

14. Lap Drumming Pop tune transcription and play along

 

 

Thursday: Repertoire, Instrumentation, and Rehearsal Strategies

1. Blues Jam

2. Using sight rhythms as the rhythmic vocabulary for a solo

3. Riff Blues

4. Combo Rep

   1. Real Easy Book | Mantooth Combo Paks

   2. How to do a quick arrangement

      1. Intro: Rhythm section plays

         1. Vamp: turnaround, one chord

         2. Last 4

         3. One chorus of chords

         4. Cadenza AT THE BEGINNING

         5. New material

         6. Rhythm section soloist

      2. Melody

      3. Solo

         1. Backgrounds: chord tones, riffs, other melodies, change texture,

         2. Trading: alternating phrases between 2 soloists or a soloist and the drummer

      4. Shout

         1. Other melodic material

         2. Section feature

         3. Soft shout (quite)

         4. Write an etude and harmonize using drop 2 voicings.

      5. Melody

      6. Outro

         1. Tag ending: repeat the last phrase or turnaround

         2. Basie ending, Ellington ending, The Theme (Miles Davis) ending

         3. Fade out

         4. Retardando

         5. Vamp with textural thinning

         6. Quick end

         7. Caesura - formatta

         8. Cadenza

5. Etude Writing

   1. Finish and practice Afternoon in paris

   2. Rhythm section on Afternoon in paris

   3. Perform afternoon in paris w/ feedback

6. Transcription

   1. Transcription Process

   2. Share which guided transcription you are going to do

   3. Work on guided transcription

   4. Practice when finished

7. Rehearsal strategy/reg group chat

Riff Blues Examples

1. C Jam Blues

2. Sonnymoon for Two

3. Cool Blues

4. I Don’t Know

5. Birth of a Band

6. One O’Clock Jump

7. Woodchoppers Ball

8. Bags Groove

9. Blues in the Closet

10. The Champ

11. Blues Backstage

12. Bud’s Blues

13. Buzzy

 

 

Friday: Transcription, Lesson Planning, Rep

1. Write a chorus

2. Blues Jam

3. Transcription time (30 min)

4. The rest of the shed

5. Culminating Activity

   1. Create a Lesson plan for your group (Style , Improv, Rhythm Section )

   2. Present lesson

   3. Email official lesson after the fact

6. Lunch

7. Present your Transcription

8. Continued work on your final activity

9. Present your final activity

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