Exercises and Handouts
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Saxophone
- Low register exercises (86.1 KB)
- High register exercises (83.7 KB)
Clarinet
- Articulation exercise for clarinet
General
- Circle of Fifths (32.4 KB)
Circle of fifths with an added "cheatsheet" to figure out what key you're in - Ear
Training Interval Grid (85 KB)
Grid for each interval (ascending and descending) for pitch memory - Scale Tonguing exercise (49.6 KB)
All the common permutations of articulation over the major scale - General MIDI Sound Bank
MIDI bank values and descriptions sorted by group... very easy to read
Scales/Arpeggios
- Scales written out in all 12 keys (122 KB)
(each fit on one page) click above to download all in one document, or individually below:- Major (34 KB)
- Natural Minor (32.3 KB)
- Melodic Minor (32.2 KB)
- Harmonic Minor (31.8 KB)
- 1-2-3-5 pattern
- 1-2-3-5 in Major (35.8 KB)
- 1-2-3-5 in minor
- Diminished Scales and Arpeggios (50.3 KB)
brief description and written out scales and arpeggios in C, C#, and D. - Major Arpeggios in all 12 keys
(1-3-5-8) through circle of fifths - Major Arpeggios in all 12 keys
(1-3-5-3) through circle of fifths - Pentatonic Scale Exercises (63.2 KB)
- Chromatic Scales
- Dominant Seventh exercise
(3-5-1-7) through circle of fifths - Major Scales
(Ascending and Descending chromatically)
Improvisation / Jazz Theory
- Explanation of rootless ninth voicings (59.2 KB) on piano (and theory)
- Explanation of shell voicings for piano (80.1 KB)
- Basslines and Voice Leading (126.2 KB)
Description and Assignment
Finale
- Text tool - detailed description (part 1) (354.1 KB)
- QuicKeys and Finale
Tips, suggestions, and advice for increased productivity - Quarter Tone Accidentals and Playback in Finale
Step-by-step tutorial detailing the creation of quarter-tones for appearance AND playback (updated for F2K5 Jan.'05) - Font Keycaps for Windows: MAESTRO (66.7 KB)
The character map found in the user manual occupies several pages, so finding that keystroke for a character at a glance isn't always the quickest task. The MAESTRO keycaps contains the same information, but takes up only one page, modeled after Rich Sigler's beautiful layout with his fonts (JazzFont and SwingFont)
- Font Keycaps for Windows: TIMES NEW ROMAN (64 KB)
The same layout as MAESTRO keycaps for non-music fonts. This is also a handy little page to have sitting around if you have better things to do than remembering ALT+ characters.