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Activities below will all have a title, an autor with contact information, a description of the activity and a template preview of related materials. To use these materials, make sure you are logged on to a Google account and click the yellow "Use Template" button in the top right to add to your personal drive for use. Enjoy!
Activities below will all have a title, an autor with contact information, a description of the activity and a template preview of related materials. To use these materials, make sure you are logged on to a Google account and click the yellow "Use Template" button in the top right to add to your personal drive for use. Enjoy!
Descriptions include general level appropriateness:
Descriptions include general level appropriateness:
BEG - 1-2 years experience
BEG - 1-2 years experience
INT: 2-3 years experience
INT: 2-3 years experience
ADV: 4+ years eperience
ADV: 4+ years eperience
ALL: could work for any age group
ALL: could work for any age group
Dominant 7th practice video
Dominant 7th practice video
Created by: Elsie Stott, elsie.stott@aps.edu
Description: INT - 8 bars each Dominant chord in 4/4 time moving in the circle of fifths. The screen shows transpositions for Concert pitch, Bb, and Eb instruments, chord tones, and suggested scales for improvisation.
dominant 7ths pear deck
dominant 7ths pear deck
Created by: Elsie Stott, elsie.stott@aps.edu
Description: INT - This Presentation introduces Dominant 7th chords (compared to prior knowledge of minor 7th chords). Each chord is built in Concert pitch, Bb & Eb transpositions and has a built in audio play along track and suggested scales for practice.
Minor 7th chords Pear deck
Minor 7th chords Pear deck
Created by: Elsie Stott, elsie.stott@aps.edu
Description: INT - Pear Deck activity - Review order of sharps and flats, build a circle of fifths, explore how minor 7th chords are constructed and how they function in a Major 2-5-1 and a minor 2-5-1, then practice playing them in the circle of 5ths!
2-5-1 Progression Level 1
2-5-1 Progression Level 1
Created by: Elsie Stott, elsie.stott@aps.edu
Description: INT - Introduction to the Major 2-5-1 Chord Progression; Scale degrees, diatonic chords, chord tones, playing in all 12 keys
Za Ba Du Dat
Za Ba Du Dat
Description: ALL - This activity explores the jvasics of jazz. Informational documents the roles of various instruments in the jazz band. There is a notation sheet for students to practice jazz lanugage with varous rhythmic figures.
B-flat Blues bass lines
B-flat Blues bass lines
Created by: Dr. Pancho Romero, pancho@nmsu.edu
Description: ALL - Here you will find PDfs of bass lines that follow a 12-bar Bb blues form. These can be great for learning theory, working on improvisation with chord tones, or teaching everyone how to walk a bass line. They are very versitalie for many situations.
What is swing?
What is swing?
Created by: Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: ALL - This is a very simple introductory activity to swing music.
Jazz band listening journal
Jazz band listening journal
Created by: Josephine Gonzales, josephinegonzales@aps.edu
Description: ALL - This is a form I use for listening activitys with jazz band. Can be used multiple times and can be adjusted for other classes.
Jazz History Project
Jazz History Project
Created by: Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: ALL - This is a 6-week project that walks students through step-by-step putting together a project that covers jazz through history. Each week students add more to their timeline presentation which culminates with an in-class presentation. Can be easily altered for any subject.
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