Repertoire Goals

1.) Know 500 Tunes at a ‘B’ Level or above

A - The song is a part of you. It will never leave you. You have spent hours with the song
and have lived with it. In order for a tune to reach this level you must :
- Know The Melody (be able to sing and play the melody, know the melody’s relationship
to the chords)
- Know The Harmony (recite all the chords, sing the bass notes, know variations)
- Know the Form
- Know The Arrangement(s)intros outros etc. associated with the Song (for example:
Round Midnight,Stablemates, etc.)
- Know The Lyrics (if applicable)
- Know the Composer (and Lyricist)
- Know when the Song was composed
- Know the Melody and Harmony in all 12 keys
- Know what the Song means to you
- Learn how the masters improvise over the song
- Know What was Going at the time of Composition
- Know why the tune was composed
- Know the essential recordings (what did the leader want? What was the philosophy of
the people who played in that group?)
- Know where the song was recorded and who was the producer and engineer

B - You know the song. You can play it at any time

- Know The Melody (be able to sing and play the melody)
- Know The Harmony (recite all the chords, sing the bass notes, know variations)
- Know The Arrangement(s)intros outros etc. associated with the Song (for example:
Round Midnight,Stablemates, etc.)
- Know The Lyrics (if applicable)
- Know the Composer (and Lyricist)
- Know when the Song was composed
- Know the Melody and Harmony in all 12 keys
- Know the original key
- Know the Form

C - You have heard the song and can express a part of the song. In other words, you can
play the song at a Jam Session.

- Know the Harmony

- Know the melody (at least partially. Sing it!)
- Know at least one version of the song
- Know the Form

D - You barely know the tune. You could survive at a jam session

- Know the basic idea of the harmony

- Know of a couple versions people might reference
I’ll practice for two hours learning the tunes. Those two hours will consist of all of the
physical work I can do with the songs: singing the tunes, transposing the tunes, and
work on the instrument. In my spare time I will investigate other aspects of the tune that
don’t have to do with my instrument. I will keep a list of the tune I work on each week. I
will work on two songs every week. If I work diligently at this rate, I will be able to learn
all 500 tunes in 5 years.

2 hours a day (1 hr for each song)

2.) Study the Arranging and Composition Styles of the Jazz Masters

In order to become familiar with arranging and composition, I will transcribe some of the
arrangements of the Jazz masters. Once a month I will transcribe the harmony and
arrangement of a great band.

1 day per month

3.) Compose/Arrange regularly

Compose/Arrange one new tune every week

30 mins a day

4.) Learn the Bach Cello suites

Study Classical Technique / How to use the bow

Exercise #1 Bowing Exercises

Exercise #2 Etudes that utilize the WHOLE bass fingerboard and Etudes that utilize the
higher positions

30 mins a day

26-2
A Beautiful Friendship
A Child is Born
A Foggy Day
A Shade of Jade
A Sleepin’ Bee
A weaver of dreams
Afro Blue
After You’ve Gone
Afternoon in Paris
Agua De Beber
Aguas de Marcos
Ain’t Misbehavin
Airegin
All blues
All God’s Children Got Rhythm
All of Me
All of You
All The Things You are
Alone together
Along Came Betty
Always
Anthropology
April in Paris
Ask Me Now
Au Private
Autumn Serenade
Azule Serape
Bag’s Groove
Barbados
Basin Street Blues
Beatrice
Beautiful Love
Beep Durple
Bemsha Swing
Bitter Sweet
Black Narcissus
Black Nile
Blood Count
Blue in Green
Blue Moon
Blues for Alice
Blues in the closet
Blues Up and Down
Body and Soul
Bohemia After Dark
Bolivia
Boo Boo’s Birthday
Boplicity
Born to be Blue
Bouncing with Bud
Bright Mississippi
Bright Size Life
Broadway
Broadway Blues
Bud Powell
But Not For Me
Butterfly
Bye Bye Blackbird
Bye-ya
Byrdlike
Caravan
Ceora
Chandra
Cheek to cheek
Cheese Cake
Chega De Saudade
Chelsea Bridge
Cherokee
Come Rain or Come Shine
Come Sunday
Con Alma
Conception
Confirmation
Cornbread
Countdown
Country
Crepescule with Nellie
Daahoud
Dance of the Infields
Darn That Dream
Dat Dere
Daybreak
Days of wine and roses
Dedicated To You
Desafinado
Detour ahead
Dewey Square
Dexterity
Diane
Django
Dolphin Dance
Donna Lee
Don’t Blame Me
Don’t Take Your Love from me
Doxy
Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love
East of the Sun
Easy To love
Eighty One
Embraceable You
Emily
End of a love Affair
Epistrophy
Equinox
Eronel
Eternal Triangle
Every Time we Say Goodbye
Everybody’s Song But Not My Own
Everything I love
Evidence
Exactly Like You
Falling Grace
Falling in love with love
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum
Firm Roots
Footprints
For all we know
Forest Flower
Four
Free
Freedom Jazz Dance
Giant Steps
Gingerbread Boy
Gloria’s Step
God Bless The Child
Golden Earring
Goodbye
Goodbye Porkpie Hat
Grooving High
Hackensack
Hallucinaions
Haunted Heart
Have You Met Miss Jones
Here’s that rainy day
Hi-Fly
Honeysuckle Rose
How deep is the ocean
How Insensitive
I Can’t Get Started
I Could Write a Book
I didn’t know what time it was
I Fall in Love Too Easily
I Get a Kick Out of You
I Get Along Without You Very Well
I Got Rhythm
I Guess I’ll Have To Hang My Tears Out To Dry
I Hear A rhapsody
I Let a Song Go Out of My Head
I Mean You
I Remember Clifford
I should care
I thought about you
I Want To Talk About You
I Wish I Knew
Idle Moments
If Ever I Would Leave You
If I Should Lose You
If I Were A Bell
Ill remember april
Ill Wind
Impressions
In A Mellowtone
In A sentimental Mood
In Walked Bud
In Your Own Sweet Was
Indian Summer
Indiana
Infant Eyes
Inner Urge
Invitation
Isfahan
Isn’t it Romantic
Isotope
It Ain’t Necessarily So
It Never Entered my Mind
It’s Only a Paper Moon
It’s You Or No One
I’ll be seeing you
I’ll Never Smile Again
I’m In The Mood For Love
I’m Old fashioned
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
I’ve Never Been in Love Before
I’ve Told Every Little Star
Jinrikisha
Jitterbug Waltz
Joshua
Joy Spring
Juju
Just a Gigolo
Just Friends
Just one of those things
Just Squeeze Me
Killer Joe
Ko Ko
La Vie En Rose
Lady Be Good
Lady Bird
Lament
Laura
Lazy Bird
Let’s Call This
Let’s Cool One
Let’s Fall in Love
Like someone in love
Like Sonny
Limehouse Blues
Little B’s Poem
Little Sunflower
Little Willie Leaps
Lize
Locomotion
Lonely Woman
Long Ago and Far Away
Lonnie’s Lament
Lotus Blossom
Love for sale
Lover
Lover man
Lullaby of Birdland
Lush Life
Lyresto
Mahjong
Mahogany Hall Stomp
Maiden Voyage
Marmaduke
Memories of You
Milestones (New)
Milestons (Old)
Minority
Moanin’
Momen’t Notice
Monk’s Dream
Monk’s Mood
Mood Indigo
Moonlight in Vermont
Moose The Mooche
My Buddy
My Favorite Things
My foolish Heart
My Funny Valentine
My heart stood still
My Ideal
My Little Brown Book
My Little Suede Shoes
My Old Flame
My One and Only love
My Romance
My Shining Hour
My Ship
My Song
Naima
Nardis
Nature Boy
Nefertiti
Never Let Me Go
Nica’s Dream
Nice Work if You Can Get It
Night and Day
Night Dreamer
Night in Tunisia
Nobody Else But Me
O Grande Amor
Off Minor
Ojos de Rojo
Oleo
Oliqui Valley
On a Clear Day
On Green Dolphin Street
On The Sunny Side of the Street
Once I lived
One By One
One Finger Snap
One Note Samba
Ornithology
Out of Nowhere
Out of this World
Pannonica
Parisian Thoroughfare
Passport
Peace
Pent Up House
Perhaps
Prelude To A Kidd
Prelude to a Kiss
Prism
Punjab
Quasimodo
Questar
Rainbow
Ramblin’
Record Me
Recordame
Remember
Round Midnight
Ruby, My Dear
Sandu
Satellite
Satin Doll
Scrapple From The Apple
Scret Love
Secret Love
Segment
Serenity
Seven Steps to Heaven
Shiek of Araby
Si Si
Smile
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
So Tender
So What
Society Red
Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise
Solar
Some Other Time
Someday My Prince Will Come
Soon
Soul Eyes
Spain
Speak Low
Speak No Evil
Spiral
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
Spring is here
Stablemates
Star Crossed Lovers
Star eyes
Stardust
Stars Fell on Alabama
Stella by starlight
Stolen Moments
Stompin’ at the Savoy
Straight Street
Strike Up The Band
Strode Rode
Summertime
Sweet Georgia Brown
Sweet Lorraine
Sweet Love of Mine
Take The A Train
Taking a Chance on Love
Tea for Two
Tenderly
Tenor Madness
Tetragon
That’s All
The Blessing
The Kicker
The Man I love
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
The Shadow Of Your Smile
The Sidewinder
The Song is you
The Surrey with the Fringe on Top
The Things We Did Last Summer
The Way you look tonight
The Windup
Thelonious
There is No Greater Love
There Will Never Be another you
They Say It’s Wonderful
Things Ain’t What They Used To Be
Think Of One
This I Dig of You
Thou Swell
Three Little Words
Three Views of a Secret
Tonight I Shall Sleep
Tricotism
Trinkle Tinkle
Triste
Turnaround
U.M.M.G
Ugly Beauty
Unity Village
Up Jumped Spring
Valse Hot
Virgo
Waltz for Debby
Watch What Happens
Watermelon Man
Wave
We See
Well You Needn’t
What is this thing called love
When I Fall in Love
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
When Will The Blues Leave
Whims of Chambers
Whisper Not
Windows
Witch Hunt
Without a song
Woody ’n You
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
Yardbird Suite
Yes or No
Yesterdays
You are too beautiful
You Dont know what love is
You Make me Feel So Young
You’re My Everything
You’ve Changed
You’ve Stepped out of a dream