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August 3rd

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Here is our plan today! 1)Review of submissions received. Am I missing anyone? Last chance is today! 2)  Everyone gets to say "hi" in the Zoom meeting! Is there anything you'd like to share with us? 3) Let's listen to some blues! First we're going to do a bit of singing (without mics on! Don't worry!) We're going to sing the harmonic "changes" to the blues. 4) As part of that review we'll listen to some key blues artists. Here is Fats Waller playing a blues: Muscle Shoals Blues (Original) https://music.apple.com/us/album/muscle-shoals-blues-original/663031864?i=663031967 This is Louis Armstrong  Here is Louis Armstrong playing a blues: https://music.apple.com/us/album/west-end-blues/193896088?i=193896684 Here is BB King playing a blues: https://music.apple.com/us/album/three-oclock-blues/1513633134?i=1513633143 Listening to the above will take around 10 minutes or so. Every time we listen we'...

July 27th

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Here is our plan today! Today we are going to be seeing our conducting video and practicing together playing Ain't Misbehavin so we can successfully submit online today. 1) Everyone gets to say "hi" in the Zoom meeting! Is there anything you'd like to share with us? 2) Very brief review of norms 3) As part of that review we'll listen to Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Fats Waller playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin Listening to the above will take around 5 minutes or so. 4) Conducting videos! I will show you how they work and present them so you can use them.  5) Hopefully today everyone has learned the entire song. We are going to go around the zoom and play what we have, and I will provide extra help to each person to make sure you have it!  6) We are going to try to play "Teacher vs. Class" 7) Today we will review the entire m...

July 22nd

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Here is our plan today! 1) Everyone gets to say "hi" in the Zoom meeting! Is there anything you'd like to share with us? 2) Very brief review of norms 3) As part of that review we'll listen to Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Fats Waller playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin Listening to the above will take around 5 minutes or so. 4) Hopefully today everyone has learned the entire song. We are going to go around the zoom and play what we have, and I will provide extra help to each person to make sure you have it!  5) We are going to try to play "Teacher vs. Class" 6) Today we will review the entire major scale. 7) Review Tonic Patterns and Dominant patterns on the instrument. 8)  We are going to try creating our own tonic and dominant patters today using our instrument. Each person needs to create patterns. We will go around the Zoom m...

July 20th Summer Band

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Welcome to our second Summer Band Session, Wednesday July 13th! Here is our plan today! 1) Everyone gets to say "hi" in the Zoom meeting! Is there anything you'd like to share with us? 2) Very brief review of norms 3) As part of that review we'll listen to Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Fats Waller playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin Listening to the above will take around 5 minutes or so. 4) Hopefully today everyone has learned the entire song. We are going to go around the zoom and play what we have, and I will provide extra help to each person to make sure you have it!  5) We are going to try to play "Teacher vs. Class" 6) Today we will review the entire major scale. 7) Review Tonic Patterns and Dominant patterns on the instrument. 8)  We are going to try creating our own tonic and dominant patters today using our instrument. E...

July 15 Summer Band

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Welcome to our second Summer Band Session, Wednesday July 13th! Here is our plan today! 1) Everyone gets to say "hi" in the Zoom meeting! Is there anything you'd like to share with us? 2) Very brief review of norms 3) As part of that review we'll listen to Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Fats Waller playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin Listening to the above will take around 5 minutes or so. 4) Everyone gets to play Ain't Misbehavin. It doesn't matter how "good" it is! Today is the day for leaning the "bridge" to Ain't Misbehanin and hopefully having the full song down.  5) We are going to try to play "Teacher vs. Class" over zoom where we echo sing tonic, dominant, and subdominant patterns (5 minutes) 6) Let's review the major scale too! We can approach improvising vertically (with chords) or horizon...

July 13 Summer Band

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Welcome to our second Summer Band Session, Wednesday July 13th! Here is our plan today! 1) Everyone gets to say "hi" in the Zoom meeting! Is there anything you'd like to share with us? 2) Very brief review of norms 3) As part of that review we'll listen to Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Fats Waller playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin Listening to the above will take around 5 minutes or so. 4) Everyone gets to play Ain't Misbehavin. It doesn't matter how "good" it is! We're still just learning. But we'll go around the room and everyone will get a chance to play and get some feedback.  (around 20 minutes or so) 5) We are going to try to play "Teacher vs. Class" over zoom where we echo sing tonic, dominant, and subdominant patterns (5 minutes) 6) Review Tonic Patterns. 7)  We are going to try creating our own d...

Summer Band 2

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Welcome to our second Summer Band Session, Wednesday July 8th! One of the amazing things about the internet is that it has so many wonderful things to offer. It has bad things too, so we need to be careful about what we are reading online. But there is so much great stuff! On Monday I introduced you to "Fats" Waller and Louis Armstrong, two of the greatest musicians in our country's history. We began learning the song Ain't Misbehavin. Here is our plan today! 1) Everyone gets to say "hi" in the Zoom meeting! Is there anything you'd like to share with us? 2) Very brief review of norms and brief review of Monday. 3) As part of that review we'll listen to Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Fats Waller playing Ain't Misbehavin This is Louis Armstrong playing Ain't Misbehavin Listening to the above will take around 5 minutes or so. 4) Everyone gets to play what they have so fa...