{"id":3294,"date":"2018-03-19T10:46:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T17:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2025-03-21T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:03:51","slug":"middle-school-jazz-steps-for-stylizing-the-young-ensemble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/middle-school-jazz-steps-for-stylizing-the-young-ensemble\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle School Jazz! Steps for Stylizing the Young Ensemble"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Stylizing<\/a>INTRODUCTION<\/h2>\n

While earning my undergraduate degree at the University of Oregon, I only had the opportunity to take one jazz class during my time there and have since felt timid about teaching jazz effectively. I have had to rely heavily on my own high school jazz experience. I was fortunate to have been a part of a good program that performed quality literature, but I needed additional resources. Also, that was 10 years ago!!<\/p>\n

This is the reason for this project. After being hired at a 5\u201012 band program this past year, I quickly needed to learn how to effectively teach jazz to younger students. It ended up being trial by fire, and I asked a lot of questions from colleagues. I had many questions \u2013 what literature do I play with a band of 13 students of varying instrumentation? How do I make young students like Swing as much as Rock? How do I make young students Swing?<\/p>\n

My goal for this project was NOT to create a method book \u2013 those have already been done and have been done well. It was my goal to fill in the missing pieces \u2013 you have the jazz band \u2013 now what? This is a resource for young directors that know very little about jazz band style and articulation. Included are specific warm-ups and rhythm exercises to be used with the band.<\/p>\n

After researching this topic I know this next year will go much more smoothly for the middle school jazz band.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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INTRODUCTION While earning my undergraduate degree at the University of Oregon, I only had the opportunity to take one jazz class during my time there and have since felt timid about teaching jazz effectively. I have had to rely heavily on my own high school jazz experience. I was fortunate to have been a part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":7488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32,37,26],"tags":[30,480,319,212,247,246,798,262,303,797],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-music","category-jazz","category-percussion","tag-abc","tag-abc-graduate","tag-abc-model-project","tag-american-band-college","tag-bandworld","tag-bandworld-magazine","tag-drum-set","tag-jazz","tag-middle-school-band","tag-middle-school-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3298,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/3298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bandworld.org\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}