SCHOOL DISTRICT OF FORT ATKINSON: FORT ATKINSON, WISCONSIN
Unit 1 – Jazz Techniques: Instrumental/ 9-12th Grade; Time Frame: 9 weeks
Mastery Concepts:
Style & Techniques
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Basic Styles, Tuning & Techniques
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Basic Warm-ups and Scales
Sight Reading
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Essential Understandings
Process Skills
The students should know:
The students should be able to:
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Major scales in swing and even eighth note
styles
Up and down to the octave or 9th
With arpeggio
Tuning to unisons, octaves and fifths
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Introduce & Developing
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Demonstrate good posture and technique
while playing
Demonstrate good characteristic tonal
production on your instrument
Demonstrate “beat” tuning and listening
on 8ves unison and 5ths
Play and tune chordal warm-ups
Play in differing styles from Hal Leonard
Essential Elements of Jazz.
Sight-read at grade 2 levels with good
quality musical skills.
Introduce & Developing
Maintain & Apply
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Advanced Styles, Tuning &
Techniques
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Advanced Warm-ups and Scales
Sight Reading
Swing Style
Latin
Rock
Fusion
Funk
Be-Bop
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Add Dominant 7th (mixolydian) scales
Dorian minor scales
Blues in major and minor
Tuning chordal harmony with extended jazz
chords and voicings
How to perform in the stylistic manner as
indicated by the piece and in a manner
consistent with accepted interpretation.
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Introduce & Developing
Perform scales around circle of 5thds
Up to ninth and back
Play advanced warm-ups from Essential
elements of Jazz
Play in swing style with triplet
interpretation
Play in even eighth note style that is
consistent with latin, rock, funk etc…
Sight-read at grade 3 levels with good
quality musical skills.
Introduce & Developing
Maintain & Apply
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Mastery Concepts:
Music Performance Techniques
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Basic Music Performance
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Stylistic Contrast
Balance & Blend
Dynamic Contrast
Tempo, rhythm, meters
Essential Understandings
Process Skills
The students should know:
The students should be able to:
Difference in styles as required of
performance music
o Stylistic articulation – doo, bah, dit,
dat
o Basic understanding of blend and
balance
o Dynamic levels
o Standard music reading skills
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Introduce & Developing
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Advanced Music Performance
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Select music and styles from
current repertoire
Stylistic Contrast
Balance & Blend
Dynamic Contrast
Tempo, rhythm, meters
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Difference in styles as required of
performance music
o Stylistic articulation – doo, bah, dit,
dat
o Basic understanding of blend and
balance
o Dynamic levels
o Standard music reading skills
Developing, Maintain & Apply
Demonstrate in individual & group settings
utilizing proper musical skills of tone
quality, intonation, rhythm, dynamics
Demonstrate utilization of jazz articulations
and apply to various musical styles and
genres.
Demonstrate and interpret blend and balance
from a section and ensemble standpoint. t
Developing
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Demonstrate in individual & group settings
utilizing proper musical skills of tone
quality, intonation, rhythm, dynamics
Demonstrate utilization of jazz articulations
and apply to various musical styles and
genres.
Demonstrate and interpret blend and balance
from a section and ensemble standpoint. t
Developing, Maintain & Apply
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SCHOOL DISTRICT OF FORT ATKINSON: FORT ATKINSON, WISCONSIN
Unit 2 – Jazz Techniques: Instrumental/ 9-12th Grade; Time Frame: 9 weeks
Mastery Concepts:
Essential Understandings
Process Skills
The
students
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know:
The
students
should be able to:
Instrumental Techniques
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Basic Instrumental Music Skills
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Essential Elements of Jazz – Hal
Leonard
Select musical pieces by grade
Basic Improvisation
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Proper seated playing position
Instrumental fingerings, slide positions
Dynamic levels including pianissimo, piano,
mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, fortissimo,
crescendo, decrescendo, sforzando
Basic time signatures including 4/4, 3/4, 2/4,
common and cut time, 6/8, 12/8, 9/8
Basic jazz articulations
Simple duple and triple based rhythms at
various tempos
Musical phrasing of 2-4 bars of music
Key signature and major/minor scales around
circle of 5ths.
Basic qualities of proper tone & intonation
Basic section/ensemble balance & blend
Basic blues in standard keys.
Dorian & Mixolydian scales
Developing, Maintain and Apply
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Demonstrate good posture and approach to
instrumental performance
Demonstrate through warm-ups keys,
scales, arpeggios, chromatic scales
Demonstrate in warm-ups various figures
through 16th note rhythms in duple and
triple based meters
Apply various articulations to warm-ups
including staccato, legato, tenuto, accents,
marcato
Perform phrases in a chordal and melodic
context
Sectional tuning with singing and playing
Ensemble balance and blend through
warm-up activities
Sight read rhymic and chordal warm-up
exercises
Solo in standard blues format utilizing
blues scales (major & minor)
Improvise utilizing mixolydian and dorian
minor scales in standard jazz forms.
Developing, Maintain and Apply
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Advanced Instrumental Music Skills
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Select Jazz Repertoire
Essential Elements – Standard
Play-a-Long
Advanced Improvisation
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Advanced musical phrasing
Multi-layered dynamics
Musical forms such as AA/B/A, Blues forms
Non-traditional form.
Key signatures and major/minor scales around
circle of 5ths.
Arpeggios in all keys
Alternate time signatures including 5/4, 7/4,
7/8, 5/8, 3/8 at various tempos
Advanced articulations and combinations
Open 5th and 4th tuning
Advanced section/ensemble balance & blend
Advanced rhythmic figures in duple and triple
based pulses incorporating up through 16th
note rhythms
Sight read grade level B/A music
Blues (major & minor)
Modal improvisation
Altered Jazz scales.
Developing, Maintain & Apply
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Demonstrate musical phrases of various
length incorporated into performance
literature
Identify basic form of literature being
utilized as a performance medium
Understand and perform transitional music
material incorporated into performance
literature
Transition through key signatures
Apply advanced groupings of articulation
to performance literature that is
appropriate to style of music
Understand balance & blend of
winds/percussion as it applies to ensemble
and performance literature
Improvise in blues and transpose to new
keys
Improvise modally and utilize altered
scales.
Transcribe and transpose solos.
Developing, Maintain & Apply
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SCHOOL DISTRICT OF FORT ATKINSON: FORT ATKINSON, WISCONSIN
Unit 3 – Jazz Techniques: Instrumental/ 9-12th Grade; Time Frame: 18 weeks
Mastery Concepts:
Essential Understandings
Process Skills
The students should know:
The students should be able to:
Instrumental Techniques
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Basic Instrumental Music Skills
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Maintain and Apply
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Maintain and Apply
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Advanced Instrumental Music Skills
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Performance Music
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Maintain and Apply
Contemporary music employed in the medium
of jazz music. (D)
Music demonstrating various styles (D)
Standard repertoire of lighter nature both
contemporary and traditional (D)
Literature of varying levels and configurations
(D)
Solo literature of various styles (D)
Developing
Maintain and Apply
Apply performance skills to selected
literature (M & A)
Include appropriate style of performance
to literature selected (D), (M & A)
Include contemporary wind and rhythm
section skills in performance material (D)
Work in a solo/small group setting with
assisted and self direction (D)
Work with assistance in developing
solo/improvisational performance
literature (D)
Develop independence in performing
solo/improvisational literature (D)
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Select Contemporary Literature
Select Traditional Literature
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