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    • BAND:TOGETHER Overview Videos
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  • Beginning Band 101
    • Introduction
    • Chapter 1: Before Getting Started
    • Chapter 2: Getting Started
    • Chapter 3: Teaching
    • Chapter 4: Bag of Tricks
    • Chapter 5: Planning
    • Chapter 6: Assessment
  • Teach Band 101
    • Listening Library
    • Planning – the Key to Success
      • Before the School Year Starts
      • Choosing Repertoire
    • Lesson/Rehearsal Planning
      • Sample Lesson Plans
      • Lesson Plan Templates
      • Warm-ups
      • eLearning Plans
    • eLessons
    • Assessment
    • Worksheets
    • Recommended Resources
    • Easy Instrument Repairs

Improvisation

  • Beginning Improvisation
  • Learning Solos
  • Basics
  • Using the Melody
  • Jazz Theory
  • Soloing Tips

Beginning Improvisation

  • Teaching Improvisation for Beginners
  • Start with the Blues!
  • Using the Melody to Solo
  • Using the Melody again!
  • Major Blues!
  • Using the Major Blues

Learning Solos

  • 6 Jazz Solos You Should Learn
  • 8 Awesome Blues Solos for Beginners to Transcribe
  • 10 Brilliant Jazz Solos

Basics

  • 4 Steps for Learning Jazz Improvisation
  • Introduction to Improvising on the Blues
  • Scales to Play Over a Jazz Blues
  • Beginner Improvisation Lesson for Saxophone (or any instrument)
  • Jazz for Beginners – Part 2 Kent Hewitt
  • Beg Piano 2

Using the Melody

  • Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment,” a jazz clinic by Mike Titlebaum
  • Jazz Lesson: 15 Ways To Embellish The Melody, and still sound good – “Summertime” (Gershwin)
  • How to Create Killer Jazz Solos With The Melody Development Exercise

Jazz Theory

  • Saxophone Lesson in Jazz Improvisation – Funk and the Pentatonic Scale
  • Beginning Jazz Improvisation with Dave Frank pt. 1 – Intro to Chord Mapping
  • 3 Important Scales
  • Denis DiBlasio, Jazz Improvisation Tips – Solo on One Scale

Soloing Tips

  • How to Trade Solos in Jazz, with the Eric Reed Quartet

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