GRADES 4-8

NON-INSTRUMENTALIST

 

BASIC IMPROVISATION
RHYTHM SECTION
CALL AND RESPONSE
BLUES SCALE AND OTHER SCALES
2-5-1 RESOLVE
SONG FORMS
SWING EIGHTH NOTES
PULSE-TEMPO-METER
JAZZ HISTORY BY DECADE
HOW TO LISTEN

INSTRUMENTALIST

SAME AS ABOVE BUT WITH INSTRUMENTS AND ACCORDING TO LEVEL.
HOW TO CREATE AN ENSEMBLE SOUND.
ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS: LICKS-CLICHES-QUOTES-SHOUTS-IMPROVISATION
RELATING TO EACH OTHER IN INSTRUMENTAL CONVERSATION.

GRADES 9-12

MORE OR LESS THE SAME AS GRADES 4-8 BUT MORE ADVANCE
CAREER
MUSIC BUSINESS
COMPOSITION
ARRANGING
REHEARSAL TECHNIQUE
BIG BAND ENSEMBLE
SOLO DEVELOPMENT
GYMNASTIC PRACTICE
BODY LANGUAGE
SIGHT SINGING

INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION

 

ALL INSTRUMENTS: IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS
STRING BASS AND OR ELECTRIC BASS IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS AND BASS TECHNIQUE

TEACHING SPECIAL CLASSES

 

HANDICAP PERSONS
OLDER PERSONS
NON-MUSICAL
ADD SYNDROME
EUROPEAN CLASSICAL MUSIC

STRINGS IN GENERAL

STRING BASS REPERTOIRE:

SYMPHONIES,SONATAS,CONCERTOS,AVANT GARDE,THIRD STREAM,CHAMBER MUSIC,DUOS-TRIOS-QUARTETS,QUINTETS-ETC., ETUDES,SPECIAL ETUDES, SUITES,SIMPLE CLASSICAL MELODIES,BOW TECHNIQUE,LEFT HAND TECHNIQUE,PHRASING CONCEPT. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RECORDING RECOMMENDATIONS. BASS REPAIR, PURCHASE AND SELLING.

COLLEGE LEVEL

MOST OF ALL THE ABOVE INSTRUCTION BUT AT A HIGH LEVEL ACCORDING TO EXPERIENCE. CONSENSUS TAKEN TO DETERMINE WHERE TO START FROM. ALSO MATERIAL SELECTED ON BASES OF WHETHER ACTIVITY WOULD BE DONE IN ONE OR TWO DAYS OR A WEEK RESIDENCY. USUALLY I HOLD A CONFERENCE WITH THE CLASS INSTRUCTOR TO FIND OUT WHAT IS NEEDED. THIS IS DONE WELL IN ADVANCE OF THE ACTIVITY DATE.

Protest Video Tape
Long Version
In Sequence

Tape #1
Art Blakey

Name Change

Black English
Oscar Brown

Call and Response
Olatubji/drums outlawed/Chuck Brown
Bid em in
What the music is to us
Afro Blue/ Coltrane
African Heritage
Coded Message
1960's Period

Lorain´Hansverry

Prejudice
Bricks
Bitterness
Seeing the Black Family

Oscar Brown

Ebmellishing notes
African singing/free pitch
American comparitive'

Judt Collins
Oscar Browns

Dance as a protest
History of Recording Trend
James Cleveland and the Gospel and Spiritual
Revolutionary Be Bop
Hollywood Protest/W.E. Dubois
Dance Modifications
Blues/communications

Bo Diddley

I'm a Man

Oscar Brown

Rhythm and Blues
Cover Songs
Revolutionary 1960's

Movin' on Up
Oscar Brown's "Brown Baby"

Gil Scott Heron

Whitney on the Moon
B Movie
"Nothing biut the Blues" White/Black existance

Exile Necessary
Snobbish Attitude Symphony Hall

Harry Belafonte

Banana Boat

Adam Clayton Powell

Excerpts and Excerpts

Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie
Jazz and Religion Segment App. 30 mins.

Call and Response
Gospel Choir-call and response
Singer with hat
Illinois Jacquet?
Minister and scales and modes
Hardtimes/Deliver Me
Minister in black suit
HIstory noted
Thomas Dorsey singing
Preacher/choir/deacon/congregation/dancing/
analogy-/shouting/riff/lick/quote/going home/stomping/so forth

Willie Dixon talks about the Blues and Muddy Waters
Warrick Carter comments on call and response
Association for the Advancement of Creatiev Musicians May 1965
Lester Bowie comments on black music
Minister closeout
Slavery in the New South 1994 From CNN: "Faces of Slavery" Atlanta, GA

Eastern North Carolina & South Carolina Gun Toters (shotguns & dogs)
Raleigh, N.C. Augusta, Ga.

Bill Kurtis "American Justice" Mississippi Burning
Protest Through Race Moveis "Midnight Ramble" American Experience with David McCoughlay. Comlete version is on my racism tape. Herb Jeffry talks about black kids aspiration to be a black cowboy.

Tape #2

SLAVE WHIPPING from cbs "A father For Charlie" with Louis Gossett Jr.
Skin Heads Jaane Whitney Show "White Supremist"
Shades of Intolerance CNN 1994 report
Atlantic Records form A & E TV History and cover records. (cover song history)

Protest in the early 1960's.

Aretha Franklin and the 60's. The extermination of Black rhythm and blue by White Rock music.
The Great Migration form Discivery channel promo
Politics in Sports

Fist Raising at Olympics
Mohammad Ali