JPFK Level 1B Workshop

HOMEWORK:

Teachers to prepare to own arrangement pieces:

1) A Student Level Grade 2 List C Piece:

 Minstrel Boy
 Space Adventurer
 Hot Air Ballooning

2) A Teacher Level Grade 1 List C Piece:

 Scarborough Fair
 Marionette's March
 A Lost Coin

Day One

9.00 Arrival & Coffee

9.15 Leaping Lemurs Bands Session – Full Score (handout)

9.45 Open Forum

 What problems/difficulties have you had?
 What's going really well

10.15 Solfege Review

 Roll Call
 Sequence singing
 Quick response – Pentatonic & Blues Phrases
 Instructor as Teacher 1st – then one volunteer for each of the above (handout)

10.45 Break

11.00 Review of Teaching Procedure for JPFK 3 - 5

 Discuss useful questions to lead to analysis of repertoire pieces – points on board
 Instructor re-emphasise Preparation/Teach/Confirm
 What activities are used for preparation?
 What activities are used for confirmation?
 Revise Stage-by-Stage Plan
 Discuss how this gradually becomes contracted

11.20 Instant Teaching Practise (from Book 3) (Task cards)

12.20 Teacher demos – Student Level Grade 2 List C (prepared for H/W)

1.00 Lunch

1.45 Improvisation Session

  Blues jam in C
 Use Rhythm grids to vary the starting point of phrases
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
X
 Everyone clap – 1 student plays a phrase starting with the clap – then relay
 Blues scales with articulation patterns slurs in 2s/3s – moving the accent

2.15 Book 4 Chord Usage

 RH CHords – 2-Handed Samba
 Inversions – Chord Train
 LH invervions for Auto acmp – F & G7 Mary/Lions/Saints
 Normal Play

3.00 Break

3.15 Rhythm Analysis Tables

 Indian Summer – Instructor Teach
 Discussion & note taking
 H/W Assignment - Rhythmic Analysis Tables – Shoo Be Doo Whop/Flying East
(A section Part1)/Space Adventurer

4.00 Product Knowledge

 Skills the students need upto grade 2
 registration storage
 Registration Shift
 Fluent use of Fills/sync stop/break etc

4.30 Closing Forum & Feedback Sheets

4.45 Finish
Day Two

9.00 Arrive & Coffee

9.15 Band Session - Flyling Scotsman (handout)

9.35 Teaching Practise Rhythm Analysis Tables (prepared as H/W)

10.45 Break

11.00 Grade Exams

9.16 Grade 1 & 2 Syllabus (handout)
9.17 Mock Exams – Marking Sheets (handout)

12.40 Read & Sing

 Play/Sing through pieces
 Discuss use and extra ideas

1.00 Lunch

1.45 Pentatonic Jam C Major/G major

2.00 Teacher Level List C Grd 1 Performances Discussion

3.00 Break

3.15 Play through Book 4 & Discuss

4.30 Closing Forum & Feedback Sheets