Mountain Brook High School
Lab Band/Jazz Band Prerequisite ­ Students must participate in Symphonic Band in order to participate in Lab Band/Jazz Band unless prior consent is given by the instructor.
Performance Skills Core Objective ● Students will demonstrate instrumental music performance skills (expression, technique, repertoire, imitation, group playing, improvisation, and composition) through a varied repertoire. Essential Understanding Core Standards ● Jazz musicians produce characteristic sound, technique and articulation, and communicate ideas/feelings and/or concepts through the performance of music. ● Students will learn ○ the full range of their instrument including all major, melodic minor and modal keys, multiple tonguing and articulations, alternate fingerings, proper technique/idiomatic patterns for playing auxiliary percussion as well as how to use note emphasis and note length to interpret a musical phrase and how to play by ear simple melodies or phrases of increasing complexity.
○ to manipulate standard pitch, tone, and dynamics along with altered qualities (subtone, ghost, vibrato, and muted) to match and balance ensemble on instrument
○ to demonstrate singing skills (proper tone quality, pitch accuracy, intonation) and match pitch in an appropriate range.
○ to develop technique through performance of Grade 3­4 Jazz Band Literature
○ demonstrate singing skills (proper tone quality, pitch accuracy, intonation) and match pitch in an appropriate range develop technique through performance of Grade 3­4 Jazz Band Literature ○ vocabulary: subtone, ghost, vibrato, muted, bite, ride, glisses, falls, doits, lip trills, scoops, ghost, subtone, muting marks, ballad, bar, blues, chorus, distortion, dissonance, consonance, interval, lyrics, offbeat, progression, semitone, tone color, verse, vibrato ○ basic to intermediate and advanced skill of improvisation
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Students will be required to:
○ participate in all requested performances including MBHS Concerts, “gigs” and other performances as requested by the directors
○ audition for All­State Jazz Band
○ participate in Solo and Ensemble Festival