Lesson 1 Group 1

“Mozartin′” Composed by Alvin Batiste.

This version is from Ellis Marsalis’ Whistle Stop.

Warm Up: Learn the Jazz Poem by clapping the rhythms and singing the syllables. Then learn the blues scale (played in half notes, then played using the jazz poem).

Lesson: Learn “Mozartin’”, paraphrase the melody through the form, use the blues scale to improvise, learn two blues melodies/background phrases derived from the blues scale.

Theory Concept: Introduce the lines and spaces of the treble clef, whole notes and half notes, chord roots, the I-IV-V blues form, and the blues scale. Analyze “Inversions” from The Root Progression Process 3.0 (Delta blues scale).

Ear Training: Sing the roots of the I -IV -V blues progression in sequence (twelve bar blues). Test students to identify the I-IV-V chords out of sequence.

Goal: Memorize Mozartin’, memorize the root sequence of the I-IV-V twelve bar blues. Identify the notes of the treble clef and sight-read rhythms comprised of half notes and whole notes.

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Mozartin' - basic 7th chord voicings (1-3-5-7)

Advanced chord voicings

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whole notes, half notes, and the 4/4 time signature

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Clap rhythms