Jazz rehearal objectives and components

Objectives: 

• Listen, feel and internalize chord progression, swing, groove, and articulation

• Learn history of jazz and the Blues

• Learn and count back beats and count offs

• Learn and play Swing eighth notes

• Learn and play 12-Bar Blues chord progression

• Learn and play jazz articulations

• Learn and play I⁷ IV⁷ V⁷scale and chord tones

• Learn and play Improvisation with 12-Bar Blues

6 main components of the jazz rehearsal

Listening

Warm-up

History

Call and Response

Improvisation

Rehearse Jazz Charts

Band Brilliance Beginner and Intermediate book include ideas from Jamey Aebersold, with his permission, and Terence Goss who plays saxophone with the Ray Charles band.