Let’s review:
The Hey Song teaches jazz traditions:
- Call and Response
- The Blues
Developing bass lines teaches improvisation techniques and helps establish foundation for playing songs.
- 1-2-3-5 or do-re-mi-sol
- 1-2-3-5-3-2-1-7 or do-re-mi-sol-mi-re-do-ti
Jazz Band Camp:
Feeling the backbeat
Circle up
count and clap a 3 pattern, then 5 pattern and 7 pattern
The Clave:
- 3-2 or 2-3
- Not Fade Away (Rolling Stones)
- Ike-Iko (Dr. John)
The Saints Go Marching In
do-mi-fa-sol do-mi-fa-sol do-mi-fa-sol-mi-do-mi-re
mi-mi-re-do do-mi-sol-sol-fa mi-fa-sol-mi-do-re-do