Year 1

  • Fall
    • Correct Embouchure Formation
      • Flat Chin
      • Corners In
      • Bottom Lip Over Bottom Teeth
      • Tongue Position
    • Rhythm Rockers lesson #1-7
    • Rubank Elementary Methods Page 1-7
    • Begin Major Scales
  • Spring
    • Mouthpiece and Neck Pitch = Ab
      • Begin Vibrato
    • Rhythm Rockers #8-15
    • Rubank Elementary Methods Through Sixteenth Notes
    • Complete One Octave Scales in all 12 Keys
    • Solo UIL Grade 3 or Equivilent
  • Summer
    • Complete Vibrato
    • Rubank Elementary Methods - Complete
    • Complete All Two Octave Scales
    • Start listening to Jazz Saxophonist
      • Charlie Parker
      • Johnny Hodges
      • Benny Carter

YEAR 2

  • Fall
    • Mouthpiece Pitch = A
    • 12 Major Scales @ 80 BPM
    • Chromatic Scale @ 80 BPM
    • Rhythm Exercises
    • All-District/Region Music
  • Spring
    • Mouthpiece Pitch Flexibility = Remington
    • Intro to Intonation
    • 12 Major Scales @ 120 BPM
    • Rhythm Exercises
    • Begin Minor Scales
    • Solo UIL Class 2 or Equivalent
  • Summer
    • Mouthpiece Pitch Flexibility = Remington
    • Natural Minor Scales @ 100 BPM
    • Rossari Etudes 1-4
    • Continue Listening to Jazz
      • Cannonball Adderley
      • Sonny Stitt
      • John Coltrane
      • Sonny Rollins

 

Year 3

  • Fall
    • Overtones
    • Full Range Major Scales @ 120 BPM
    • 36 Minor Scales
    • All-District/Region Music
  • Spring
    • Vent Key Exercises
    • Intervals
    • Triads/Diatonic Triads
    • Solo
  • Summer
    • Jazz Embouchure
    • Omnibook Exercises
    • Bebop Scales
    • Listening
      • Hank Mobley
      • Dexter Gordon
      • Johnny Griffin

 

  • Fall
    • Overblowing 6th
    • Intonation Exercises
    • Seventh Chord/Diatonic Seventh
    • Modern Reading in 4/4
    • All-State Music
  • Spring
    • Altissimo Scales
    • Intonation Exercises
    • Modern Reading in 4/4
    • II-V7-I/IV-V7-I
    • Solo
  • Summer
    • Omnibook Transcriptions
    • Bergonzi Book 1 Exercises
    • All-State Jazz Etudes
    • Arpeggiate Standard Tunes
    • Listening
      • Count Basie
      • Stan Kenton
      • Duke Ellington
      • Woody Herman

 

Year 4

  • Fall
    • Beyond the 6th
    • Pentatonic Scales
    • Modern Reading in 4/4
    • All-State Music
  • Spring
    • Broken Octaves/Flexibility (Nestler)
    • Full Range Scales
    • Modern Reading in 4/4
    • Solo UIL Class 1
  • Summer
    • Transcriptions
    • Patterns in Twelve Keys
    • Arpeggiate Standard Tunes
    • Continue Bergonzi Book 1
    • All-State Jazz Etudes
    • Listening
      • Michael Brecker
      • Chris Potter
      • Kenny Garrett
      • Joshua Redman

Year 5