Long-Term Planning Calendar: Music

Teacher: Haley Boyer

Grade/Class/Ensemble: 8th Grade Band
Unit’s Main Objective: Jazz, Swing, Improvisation
Primary Repertoire: Billie’s Bounce, Somewhere Beyond the Sea, and There Will Never be Another You
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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Main Obj: The students will Main Obj: The students will Main Obj: The students will Main Obj: The students will Main Obj: The students will
play and understand swing play head of There Will Never play arrangement of TWNBAY play head of Somewhere play arrangement of SBTS
rhythms be Another You Beyond the Sea

Activity 1: Listen to There Will Activity 1: Clap the rhythm of Activity 1: Play head of Activity 1: Clap the rhythm of Activity 1: Play head of SBTS
Never be Another You TWNBAY TWNBAY Somewhere Beyond the Sea

Activity 2: Play Bb major scale Activity 2: Play the head of Activity 2: Play arranged Activity 2: Play head of Activity 2: Play arrangement of
swung by call and response TWNBAY version of TWNBAY Somewhere Beyond the Sea SBTS
with the instructor.

Repertoire: There Will Never be Repertoire: There Will Never be Repertoire: There Will Never be Repertoire: Somewhere Repertoire: Somewhere
Another You Another You Another You Beyond the Sea Beyond the Sea

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Main Obj: The students will Main Obj: The students will be Main Obj: The students will Main Obj: The students will Main Obj: The students will
rehearse repertoire introduced to improvisation. understand and construct blues play blues scales in multiple play Billie’s Bounce
scales. keys.

Activity 1: Listen to repertoire Activity 1: Listen to solos within Activity 1: Construct a few Activity 1: Play Bb blues Activity 1: Play head of Billie’s
repertoire blues scales together Bounce

Activity 2: Play repertoire Activity 2: Introduce blues Activity 2: Have the students Activity 2: Play Eb blues Activity 2: Play arrangement of
scales. construct blues scales on their Billie’s Bounce
own (handout)

Repertoire: Somewhere Repertoire: Somewhere Repertoire: Repertoire: Repertoire: Billie’s Bounce

Beyond the Sea, There Will Beyond the Sea, There Will
Never be Another You Never be Another You

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Main Obj: The students will Main Obj: The students will Main Obj: The students will Main Obj: The students will Main Obj: The students will
play blues scale over Billie’s begin improvisation. have a playing test continue to improvise in small continue to improvise in small
Bounce groups. groups.

Activity 1: Review scale/ Activity 1: Review blues scale Activity 1: Play a swung scale Activity 1: Record arrangement Activity 1: Record arrangement
construct them in other keys and the heads of all the in two keys of Billie’s Bounce (backgrounds of Billie’s Bounce (backgrounds
repertoire. and head) and head)

Activity 2: Play scale over solo Activity 2: Have students (in Activity 2: Play heads of all Activity 2: Separate into small Activity 2: Separate into small
section of Billie’s Bounce in sections) improvise over Billie’s repertoire with appropriate groups to improvise groups to improvise
various swing rhythms. Bounce solo section style.

Repertoire: Billie’s Bounce Repertoire: All repertoire Repertoire: All repertoire Repertoire: Billie’s Bounce Repertoire: Billie’s Bounce

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Main Obj: The students will Main Obj: The students will Main Obj: The students will Main Obj: The students will Main Obj: The students will
begin solo improvisation as a learn the appropriate solo keys solo over all the repertoire. solo over all the repertoire. perform for their peers.
large group on Billie’s Bounce for the other repertoire.
Activity 1: Section improvisation
with the large group
Activity 2: Every single student
will solo in the large group,
simply going down the row.
Activity 1: Learn appropriate
blues scales (with exceptions)
Activity 2: Play the scales over
the repertoire.
Activity 1: Separate into small Activity 1: Separate into small Activity 1: The groups will
groups and practice groups and practice perform one piece for their
improvisation on all pieces. improvisation on all pieces. peers. All groups will perform,
all students will take 1 chorus.

Repertoire: Billie’s Bounce Repertoire: There Will Never be Repertoire: All repertoire Repertoire: All repertoire Repertoire: All repertoire.
Another You, Somewhere
Beyond the Sea
Notes:

Make sure all groups are relatively balanced between students who have had improvisation experience before and students who have not.