(a) |
Prepare, rehearse, and perform music in a jazz style in solo, small group, or large ensemble settings. |
(b) |
Identify different elements of music such as articulation, rhythm, beat, metre, time placement, and tone that help create a jazz style and apply this knowledge while music making. |
(c) |
Recognize and define musical forms emphasizing blues form, in music that is listened to and/or performed. |
(d) |
As a class and with help from the teacher design, implement, and evaluate a personal plan to improve individual performance process, and to enhance knowledge and understandings of jazz (e.g., as part of the process of improvement, include recording and listening back to the performances, practices, and/or rehearsals). |
(e) |
Describe conventions regarding jazz articulation and use those conventions in performance. |
(f) |
Know, describe, and use in performance the standard notation conventions such as note durations up to 16th notes, codas, D.S.s, and dynamic markings. |
(g) |
Identify the standards of notation in jazz music that are different from traditional "classical" notation (e.g., falls, doits, turns, and hats, as well as notation conventions such as how off-beat quarter notes should be written). |
(h) |
Begin to use jazz vocabulary to relate jazz theory to personal musical performance (see Jazz Glossary). |
The chapters provide an outline of helpful accessories for practicing jazz such as a metronome. Included are titles of books and materials to use, tips on the nature and content of practice and structuring practice. The content is interspersed with personal commentary and experiences and itemized lists of content. The appendices include a handy reference guide to a complete listing of play-along tunes, a guide to play-along exercises and a list of play-along tunes with useful applications.
The accompanying CD demonstrates the examples in the book.