Assignments:
Class One
What is the greatest use of the octave in recorded music?
Class Two
Learn the changes from “When the Saints Go Marching In”
Find where the “iv6” color appears in the following music:
“I Believe I Can Fly” - R. Kelly
“Waltz of the Flowers” - Tchaikovsky
“A Certain Romance” - Arctic Monkeys
“One Day I’ll Fly Away” - Randy Crawford
“All of Me”
“Love’s Been Good to Me” - Johnny Cash
“Love” from Disney’s “Robin Hood”
“Mona Lisa” - Nat King Cole
“Stardust” - Hoagy Carmichael
Plus: Which of these songs is built on another?
Class Three
Learn the changes to:
“Smile” (Chaplin)
Find where the “Backdoor ii-V” (iv7 bVII7) color appears in the following music:
“Cherokee”
“When Sunny Gets Blue”
“Joy Spring” (C. Jordan)
“Desafinado” (A.C. Jobim)
“Just Friends”
“I Got it Bad (and That Ain’t Good)” (Duke)
Class Four
Learn the changes from “Best Part” by Daniel Caeser
Find where the “v” or “v I7” color appears in the following music:
“Misty” - Errol Garner
“The Nearness of You” -Hoagy Carmichael
“Just Because” - Anita Baker
“Ne Me Quittes Pas” - Jacques Brel
“Sweet Lorraine”
Extras:
“Young and Foolish”
“My Foolish Heart”
“Cherokee”
Class Three
Memorize and perform the solo from the second A section (2:49)
Listen to and begin transcribing the B section (3:16)