Jazz Resources for Music Teachers
The Method and MORE!Teach jazz? Whether or not you speak fluent "jazz", it's a challenge to motivate and teach young musicians to work on improvising and to play with great style. We're here to help with a motivating step-by-step jazz improvisation method and lots of other resources for getting your band members swinging hard and soloing like pros!
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Jazz Ensemble MusicCheck out our collection of 6 big band arrangements of the Improv Pathways head charts, playable by middle school and high school jazz ensembles. Your students will love the tunes, and will really love the success they feel improvising over the easy chord changes! Click HERE to listen and choose your favorites.
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FREE Jazz History Poster
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This poster shows the styles of jazz music through its most celebrated innovators, beginning with pre-jazz styles and continuing through the Early Jazz, Swing, Bebop, Post Bop, and Fusion periods. Right-click one of these links to download a high-resolution JPEG or PDF image, and print it as large as you want!
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FREE Jazz Style and Articulation Exercises
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Use this step-by-step series of short jazz exercises to teach your jazz ensemble how to play with perfect swing style. The rules discussed and practiced include:
A. Long "DAH" Notes B. 8th Note "DAHS" C. "DOT" Notes D. "DAH-DOT" Combinations E. "DOO" Notes F. "DOO-WAH" Notes G. Extra Accents H. Slurs Between 8th Notes Download Here:
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Jazz Trombone RemixHeard the phrase "jazz it up"? Early jazz musicians often took current popular tunes and did exactly that! Within that tradition I took a recent country/rock crossover hit "This Is How We Roll" and jazzified it using only 100% TROMBONE. This video features a GoPro camera attached to the end of my trombone slide and an improvised "electric trombone" solo. I hope you enjoy the sights and sounds of my first YouTube music video!
You can click here to download the sheet music for this arrangement, playable by 5 trombones. |
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