| 45 -90 mins | $185 – $255* |
This workshop, lasting 45-90 minutes, aims to guide the setup of a new big band program. It covers teaching high-level big band concepts to young bands, selecting repertoire, rehearsal functioning, and student musical responsibilities. The focus is on engaging students in creating and valuing musical moments and setting performance goals.
This workshop is intended to lay out the basic steps required to set up a NEW big band program. It can be tailored to support programs with a variety of resources and staff expertise. Topic may include:
- “How? – What? – Why?” START with the WHY
- High level big band concepts CAN be taught in the very youngest of bands… and then these concepts underpin the future of your jazz program
- The importance of instrumentation
- Choosing repertoire that students will enjoy BUT also simultaneously has direct significance to their jazz awareness
- Rehearsal functioning and expectations
- Making students aware of their various musical responsibilities in a jazz band
- Who should I listen to for pulse / intonation /phrasing etc
- What is the specific role of the part which I am playing
- Can I hear the melody
- Etc etc
- Inviting students to, in every rehearsal and performance, engage in a journey that will create, identify, and then value the musical moments that will inevitably come such as:
- A really nicely balanced section
- A groove that just makes them ‘happy’
- The power of dynamics
- The impact of tightly performed articulations
- The power an ensemble has to impact those that may be listening
- Etc etc
- The importance of performance goal(s)
*Price is for all workshops in metropolitan Melbourne. Extra costs may be required for workshops in other locations.