A simple and fun way to teach sight reading of jazz rhythms while simultaneously helping your students go beyond blues scales in soloing over a 12 bar blues form -- this session will be participatory, and will give you a series of mini-lessons to use with your middle or high school jazz classes. Bring your instrument.
Target Audience
middle and high school jazz bands
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Clinician Info
sarah cline
Berkeley High School
Sarah Cline is in her 14th year as Jazz Director at Berkeley High School, a premier jazz program known nationally and internationally as an incubator of talent and a citadel of swing. Her students regularly represent at high-level festivals, and continue their musical journeys in top flight college music programs. During her time at Berkeley High, she has led nine tours to Cuba, collaborating with La Escuela Nacional de la Musica in Havana, and culminating in the establishment of a sister school relationship. Sarah is the founder of JazzGirls Day, an event that now is spreading to communities across the US that encourages young women to see a place for themselves in the world of jazz. In addition to her teaching duties, Sarah is an in-demand professional trombonist in the San Francisco Bay Area in both jazz and salsa bands. She has presented at the American Educational Research Association Conference, the Jazz Education Network Conference, and the California All-State Music Education Conference.