Solo Clinic

Rehearsal with High School Ensemble

• Work on songs to be performed together
• Conduct and instruct ensemble

Discussion: The Concept of Music

• What do you really have in your hands?
• Music: it's what's on the page, isn't it?
• How to communicate
• Emotional content and its expression
• Vocalization and its relationship to music
• Techniques
• Listening

Soloing and Improvisation

• How do you know what notes to play?
• Listening (CD, Radio, TV)
• Copying other performers (note for note) to learn style and licks
• Learning scales and chords
• How melody fits in with scales and chords
• A place to start: Blues chord progression and scale

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