Jump, Jive, and Jazz! - Improvise with Confidence!

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1 A Wokshop pesented fo the Music of the Valley Chapte AOSA - Noveme 3, 2018 ump, ive, and azz! - Impovise with Confidence! Desciption Fom clapping and singing games fo childen, ight though the lues, impovisation is emedded in ou Ameican cultue It s ou elemental music We ll wok ou way though some games, songs and instumentals, expeimenting as we go with techniques to stimulate ou ceative uice Waning! Dancing, singing and happiness may ensue!! Focus: Off pocess; impovisation; ochestation; singing, speech and movement; Note to wokshop paticipants: Please feel fee to use anything in these notes witten o aanged y Bent Holl fo you own pofessional use in class o wokshops Simply make sue that the following notice is on each copy Bent M Holl, 2018 All ights eseved Used y pemission Fo all othe mateials pemission must e otained fom the copyight holde These notes ae availale online at: This wokshop has een pesented y: Find moe fee stuff at Bent M Holl 302 East College Steet Bidgewate, Va entholl@maccom wwwenthollcom Download the wokshop notes fom Bent s wesite 1

2 Down in the Valley (Fulton and Smith) ump, ive, and azz! Impovise with Confidence! Aim Reinfocement of FOLKLORIC melody though movement and singing Pocess Lean the melody y ote with hand clapping accompaniment When secue add the game: Students stand in a cicle, 2 o 4 students in the cente ae kneeling; on the wod ise they stand and make a motion; they can move individually o as patnes; they change thei motion on the second vese; each dance picks a new dance fom the cicle and the game continues Rondo fo BP Rondo a la Woop! Snap Clap Bass Patsch R Patsch L c Fou Times BMH Bass Clap Patsch R Patsch L c Snap Clap Patsch Stomp c C B P Bk B C P Pl woop! uh huh! U " Sn Cp St woop! uh huh! 2

3 Aim: Reinfoce phase length, and Question/Answe impovisation using Body Pecussion Pocess: Intoduce ody instuments and pattens: The Basics: Snap, Clap, Patsch, Stomp The Rest: Bass Tones, Leg slaps, Mouth tones, Hand Tones Ty out some pattens stating with the asics and moving to the the est Pepae the class with an intoduction to the classic question/answe technique Give the class a question using ody pecussion; all answe Make sue eveyone ends at the stong eat of the last measue Final Point Make sue the answes ae not an exact imitation of the question Make sue the answes ae elated to the question Ask who wants to give the teache a question? All get a patne, question answe with each othe Discove: The cadence point (The Final Point) on the last stong eat of the answe The asence of a cadence point (Final Point) in the question The commonality o shaed ideas etween the question and answe The answe should have common elements with the question The question and answe phases ae the same length A Good Moning Song! (Konnie Salia) & c & 4 C7 Say hel - F lo to the mon - ing, say hel - 3 oth - e Sat - u - day mon - ing what moe F 3 can I say? Put a gm7 lo to the day, it's an - F smile on you face, put the & 3 7 gm7 eat in you feet, Make a Sat - u - day mon - ing hy - thm with some - f one you meet Aim: Use a good moning song to intoduce melodic impovisation using the No Fault method Lean how to impovise Hum the chod oots while I play the full chods on the piano Hum the thids; then the fifths Hum one of the chod notes, changing to a new one evey time the chods change

4 Change the note when you ea tells you it s necessay Discove that it is only necessay to move up o down a step wheneve I change the chod Sometimes you can stay on the same note Change notes a lot o a little, always listening to find the good ones You can glue chod tones togethe using passing tones Use emoidey to add a little spice Pactice this until comfotale with the outine (This is what is called No Fault impovisation! A good note is only one step away!) Change the humming to scat syllales adding some SIMPLE hythms Wok one phase at a time Expand the Lesson Make a Rondo Use ody pecussion fo one contasting section, vocal scat fo anothe, movement fo anothe Tansfe the vocal scat to the Off instuments Get a ass playe, add some chod notes, some pecussion and make a azz song! Soup, Soup (ones and Hawes) Play the game (Call) Way down yonde, (esponse) Soup, Soup (Call) Below the moon, (esponse) Soup, Soup (Call) I got a lette, (esponse) Soup, Soup (Call) Fom Alma Stone, (esponse) Soup, Soup (Call) They ain t ut the one thing, (esponse) Soup, Soup (Call) That I dislike, (esponse) Soup, Soup (Call) That s putting on ais, (esponse) Soup, Soup (Call) And alling that ack, (esponse) Soup, Soup (Call) That uzzad soup, (esponse) Soup, Soup (Call) That ait soup, (esponse) Soup, Soup (Call) That monkey soup, (esponse) Soup, Soup (Call) That gophe soup, (esponse) Soup, Soup (Call) That elephant soup (esponse) Soup, Soup Diections Stand in a cicle, don t hold hands One in the cente walks/dances aound the cicle duing vese One picks patne y end of vese and all the ack togethe fo Call and Response (Balling the ack; with knees togethe, ounce/wiggle them in a cicle with style) One takes patne s place in the cicle and patne ecomes One and the game continues Expand the Lesson ɶ ɶ Sing the type of soup Feel fee to emellish ad li By the time you get to this point in the lesson impovisations will e natual Be sue to continue Soup, Soup esponse 4

5 Continents and Oceans (Gaskins and Holl) The Blues mode in G - I-IV-V Hamony Use a wod chain, a song, a visual, and the lues to teach Geogaphy! Continents and oceans cove the eath Land and wate lankets the wold Noth Ameica, South Ameica, Asia, Afica, Euope and Austalia, Antactica The Actic Ocean, The Indian Ocean, Atlantic and Pacific, the Southen Ocean too! Pocess Set up the Off instuments fo the Blues Mode: (Fom low to high on you diatonic instuments) & # n Lean song fist! Ukuleles anyone? # n n # G & # 4 # D 7 G7 Ó 5& # G7 Con - ti - nents and o - ceans, Land C 7 and wa - te, Ó Ó 9 con land G7 - ti - nents and o - ceans, con - ti - nents and o - and ceans, wa -te, land and wa - te, D 7 C 7 & # Ó Ó con - ti - nents and o - ceans, con -ti-nents and o-ceans cov - e the land and Use a visual to eview lues fom: I I I I - IV IV I I - V IV I I Review Soup, Soup and ti-tone on Off instuments Add a funky Blues ass line Add Dums and wods and wa-te, land and wa-te lan-ket the Cl Guio Tam L D ã 4 ã 4 Ó ã 4 4 ã eath wold G7 Ó 5

6 A Fist Expeience with azz C am Blues (Ellington) Aim Active listening using azz impovisation in pentatonic Blues Pocess: Lean the tune to C am Blues Show hand staff Lean the lines and spaces (eegiiddyeph and face) Tansfe to Off Instuments Accompany on piano o guita Listen to C am Blues (Ellington) Play tune along with the and Discuss fom and impovisations Play tune again with piano and solo impovisations Noyce (Holl) Sopano Xylophone & q» 120 Alto Xylophone 1 & Alto Xylophone 2 Bass Xylophone Conga Tuma &? H k k T o H o T o o H k k T o H o o o T Ride Cymal High Hat Snae Dum Kick Bass Contaass Xylophone? 6

7 Teach the ass xylophone pat fist It sets the funky goove of the piece Teach the alto pats y changing the goups of 16 th notes to 8 th notes When the students ae secue, change ack to the 16 th notes Let the asses play along on thei own pat to cay the goove Add the contaass and sopano xylophone pats The sopano pat paodies a childen s singsong chant and was ceated y students as a esponse to my pompt, I wonde if you can make up a sopano pat that goes with all this stuff? Click you sticks togethe on the ests fo a snappy pecussive touch Expand the Lesson A dum set adds a dynamic, hythmic flavo The pats shown hee ae playale fo 6 th - 8 th gades with little o no expeience equied With younge childen, sepaate the pats Boow a dumme fom the and to eally get the goove going! The CD vesion gives you a taste of what a moe advanced dumme can add to this piece Add some vocal call and esponse impovisation when the whole thing gets going Do some 4 o 8 eat instumental impov while the and plays stop time Expand the aangement with a 4-measue chaconne style B Section using the descending tetachod fom IV to I One measue on IV, one measue on III, one on II, and one on I Stat with the ust the chod oots Ty othe chod tones Expeiment with one measue impovisations with a goup assigned to each chod Wok into one o two soloists o one o two goup soloists (You ll find that you can do this with two goups in altenation One goup can do the IV and II using petty much the same goup of notes, likewise fo I and III The Aangement Stat with the congas and dum set along with the ass xylophone and play twice Add Alto Xylophone 2 and play twice Add Alto Xylophone 1 and play twice Add the sopano xylophone and play twice Add the contaass xylophone and play twice Each pat gets a solo with conga and dum set accompaniment Play all togethe two moe times and then end on the fist eat of the fist measue 7

8 Resouces Ellington, Duke Music is My Mistess Musical Heitage Society, Inc 1710 Highway 35, Ocean, New esey MHS M Fulton, Eleano and Pat Smith Let s Slice the Ice Afican- Ameican Childen s Ring Games and Chants MMB Music, Inc Contempoay Ats Building, 3526 Washington Avenue, Saint Louis, MO Gaskins, Phyllis and Bent M Holl School Songs - Songs aout Elementay Science, Reading, and Social Studies Beatin Path Pulications LLC, 302 E College St, Bidgewate, VA Holl, Bent Wood Songs - Pieces fo Xylophones and Maimas Gades 4-8 Beatin Path Pulications LLC, 302 East College Steet Bidgewate, VA ones, Bessie and Bess Lomax Hawes Step It Down - Games, Plays, Songs & Stoies fom the Afo- Ameican Heitage Univesity of Geogia Pess, Athens, GA 1972 Salia, Konnie We Welcome in the Day Loenz Pulishing Company Sheet Music Plus, 1210 Innovation D, Winona, MN