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