Experience Design: Jazz Clinic 

 
Summary/Overview: 
● Tuning exercise around Circle of Fourths 
● Rhythmic exercise over Drum Genius 
● Introduce blues form 
 
Duration: 10-12 minutes 
 
Materials and Visual Aids: 
● Speakers, aux, and converter 
● Drum Genius 
 
Detailed Process: 
● Tuning exercise on Circle of Fourths 
○ Write on board together (?)/ say it together 
○ Drum genius on, percussionists on vibes/mallets 
○ What is an ostinato? 
■ What ostinato would sound good over this? 
○ Start at C, go around the circle in 4ths ( Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, B, E, A, D, G, C, F) 
○ Repeat but on roots and fifths 
● Call and response on Bb over Drum Genius 
○ Facilitator plays four-beat phrase, immediate response 
○ Around the circle, adding notes every few people (Bb, Eb, F) 
● I IV V I (roots, then add fifths) 
 
Wound Forward: 
● I IV I I 
IV IV I I 
V IV I I 
● Roots, fifths 
● Teach scales 
○ Bb Major/Bb dominant 
○ Eb Lydian/Eb Major 
○ F dominant 
 
Wound Back: 
● “Feel free to return to this at any point” 
● Provide transpositions 
● Provide handouts 
● Color-coding 
● Hand signs 
 
Assessment: 
● Playing correct notes when specified 
● Accurately replicating rhythms 
● Improvising with chord tones 
 
Standards Addressed: 
● HIAD.9 The student will improvise a melody to a I-IV-V(V​7​)-I chord progression.  
HIAD.10 The student will arrange or compose accompanying harmonies and/or counter 
melodies to a given melody.  
HIAD.13 The student will demonstrate, describe, and analyze ensemble skills at an 
advanced level, including 
○ balancing and blending instrumental timbres; 
○ making adjustments to facilitate correct intonation; 
○ matching dynamic levels and playing style; 
○ responding to advanced conducting patterns and gestures; 
○ demonstrating conducting patterns and gestures; and 
○ maintaining a steady beat at various tempos and performing tempo changes in the 
music literature being studied.  
● HIAD.16 The student will create and perform rhythmic and melodic examples to a 
I-IV-V(V​7​)-I chord progression, using call-and-response and improvisation.