Materials:

Standard of Excellence: Jazz Ensemble Method

Music Stand
White Board
(Potentially) My bari sax

National Standards

Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of

music.
Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
Reading and notating music.

Indiana Standards

Performing music: Playing an instrument alone and with others

o Play with appropriate tone quality, accurate tuning and intonation, and
good breath support, posture, and hand position.
Creating music: Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments
o Create an improvised melody over a twelve bar blues chord
progression.
Responding to music: Reading, notating, and interpreting music
o Read and perform instrumental scores observing pertaining to pitch,
rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expressive detail.

Objectives/Goals:

Students will be learn what a standard 12 bar blues progression is and how to
create one (primary goal)
Students will learn variations of the 12 bar blues progression.
Students will be exposed to a blues scale (secondary goal to be thoroughly
discussed next lesson).

Title of the Music Selection:

Jammin with Charlie (measures 1 to 54).

Procedure:
1. Instructor will go over what the class will learn today.
a. Warm-ups (Scale)
b. Play measures 1 to 54 in Jammin with Charlie
c. Learn what the 12 bar blues progression is.
2. Warm-ups
a. Turn to page 48 and play #3.
b. This is a blues scale. We will come back to it and learn how to create
and use it.
3. Turn to page 5 for Jammin with Charlie
a. Students will play until measure 54.
b. Band plays cues with rhythm section from measure 43 to 54.

c. While this is a rock piece, the 12 bar blues is still used to form
melodies.
d. Now lets figure out what the harmonic set-up is.
4. Write out progression on the board
a. Now that we have this written out, lets play it using the root of each
chord.
b. This time, lets have some volunteers to solo.
i. If you have lots of volunteers, have 4 bar solos.
ii. If you have few volunteers have 4 bar solos OR full solo each.
c. Now this time, we can add a little variation to our progression.
i. Write out the 1st variation
ii. Lets play this version only the root of each chord
iii. Write out the 2nd variation
iv. Lets play this version Only roots again
v. Write out the 3rd variation
vi. Lets play this one only roots

Closure/Review
5. How do we form a basic 12 bar blues progression? What are some ways we
can alter it to make it sound more interesting?
Future Lesson
In my next lesson, I will expand upon the 12 bar blues by discussing more
variations, as well as students improvising over those different sets. I will also teach
students how to form and use the blues scales to improvise over a solo section