I just came home from the Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra, or PYJO, which I have joined and have been practicing with for the past two weeks.
So far in the Jazz Orchestra we have practiced on general forms, such as going from a root to the flat seventh note in the scale, back to the root, to the second, and back to the root, and applying that to all twelve keys.
There are also a few songs we are playing, featuring an assortment of instruments, such as Blue Bones which, as the title suggests, features the trombones in the main line, and 500 Miles High, which has a large amount of trumpet solos and riffs.
During my time in the past month, I have also been reading up on Jazz Rhythm and Theory, meaning the different jazz scales and the common harmonies that make for a good song.
