Blues+Improv+Lesson

I decided to do this lesson with the Prep Jazz Band, because at this point when we would play and work on the blues progression, the students were solely playing the "Blues Scale". I wanted them to get away from this, and start to include more of the chord tones, instead of playing a "Db" over a Bb7 chord, or a "E" over an F7 chord. I really wanted them to start experimenting with the chord tones, so we first needed to go over some of the theory, and then start applying it to the blues progression. I wanted to start with the ear training stuff so they could first hear what I was talking about, before we wen into alll of the theory about it. This is an easy cocept to understand and teach if you have already been working on scales with your band, as you should be.

This has the original lesson plan first, and then my edited lesson plan second.