Classroom Routines

Willie Thomas | October 5, 2011

Use the list of materials below to help you organize and plan your classroom routines.  I have listed the specific pages from the Player's Corner Core curriculum which includes the 6-pack, Diminished 3-Pack, and Half-Diminished 2-Pack.  I've also included the Immersion Zone and Chromatic Drills from the supplementary curriculum.

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Full Band arrangements for practice routines are now available HERE

Select and combine various sets of materials below that reinforce core curriculum concepts that you are currently working on in the classroom. Use one of these routines everyday to warm up your band.

Dominant 7th Cycle (V7)
Free Lesson
Free Lesson Pg 4 Roots and 5ths - Dom Cycle
Free Lesson Pg 12 Penatonic Pairs - Dom Cycle
Basic Language 6-Pack
Lesson 1 Pg 5-7 Pentatonic Pairs + Major 3rd-Cycle
Lesson 3 Pg 5 Embellished Pentatonic Pairs-Cycle
Lesson 5 Pg 2-3 Comecting Pent Pairs w/Chromatics
Lesson 5 Pg 4-5 Embellishing & Connecting Pent Pairs
Lesson 5 Pg 9 II-V-I Dom Cycle 12 keys
Diminished 3-Pack
Lesson 1 Pg 3-4 Pent Pair set up for Dim Patterns-Cycle
Lesson 1 Pg 5-6 Triads on Dim Ladder- 12 keys
Lesson 2 Pg 2-4 Moving Set Ups on Dim Ladder-Cycle
Lesson 2 Pg 7-8 Desc/Asc Symmetric Dim Patterns 12 Keys
Lesson 3 Pg 3-4 Symmetric Dim Patterns Cycle
Lesson 3 Pg 6 Symmetric triplet Dim Patterns Cycle
Lesson 3 Pg 7-8 Symmctric Dim Patterns Cycle
Half Diminished 2-Pack
Lesson 1 Pg 3-4 Half Dim Patterns on Set-up Cycle
Lesson 1 Pg 5-6 Half Dim Patterns Cycle

Lesson 1 Pg 8-9 Half Dim chromatic shift Cycle

Blues and Dorian
Lesson 4 Pg 4-5 Dorian Minor 3 Keys
Immersion Zone-Level 2 Blues Riffs 12 Keys

II-V-I Cycle Downloads

II-VI-II-V-I   Cycle Download

Blues and Dorian Downloads

Tune Time

Chromatic Drills
Drill #1 Pg 2-3 Connect Pentatonic Pairs - V7 Cycle
Drill #2 Pg 2-4 Connect Pentatonic Pairs - V7 Cycle
Drill #3 Pg 1 Connect Pent Pairs I-II-V-I Cycle
Drill #3 Pg 2-3 Chromatic Extension I-II-V-I Cycle Drill
Drill #4  Pg 5-7Ascend/Descend Chrom  II-V-I Patterns

Special Tunes - Core Curriculm
Free Lesson Pg 9 Yo Dude Blues (Bb)
Basic Language 6-Pack
Lesson 1 Pg 8 My Baby-Mama Blues (F)
Lesson 2 Pg 10Trailin On (On the Trail)
Lesson 3 Pg 7 Kickinʼ Back (Tune Up)
Lesson 4 Pg 7 Simplicitude (Impressions)
Lesson 5 Pg 11 Handy Andy (Iʼve Got Rhythm)
Lesson 6 Pg 7 Nat & Sol (Satin Doll)
Diminished 3-Pack
Lesson 1 Pg 7 Sweet Dimi Brown (Sweet Georgia Brown)
Lesson 2 Pg 9 What is This Thang? (What is This Thing)
Lesson 3 Pg 9 Nuevo Es Bueno (Algo Bueno)
Half Diminished 2-Pack
Lesson 1 Pg 7 Sweet Georgia Brown
Lesson 1 Pg 10 "F" Blues
Lesson 2 Pg 6 Perdido
Lesson 2 Pg 7 Yardbird Suite
Lesson 2 Pg 8 Ornithology