Guitar

Eb Alto Saxophone

Here's a terrific piece for beginning bands to learn to play together in a light rock style. This is also an excellent teaching tool for major scale based improvisation. Your band will sound great in a hurry with this one!

Providing a great workout for basic blues scales and riffs Bubbert demonstrates a relaxed swing style with this Mike Steinel original. With solid ensemble writing and a laid back feel this is a perfect chart for teaching swing.

Flute

Here is a great medium swing blues tune for beginning jazz ensembles. The main theme features the rhythm section playing stop time before it slips into a steady swing pattern. There is a solid ensemble chorus leading to the solo section that can be used for any player.

Finally our hero finds love. This medium/slow swinger features short solo passages for trumpet and alto. The harmonies and textures in this piece provide excellent material for teaching balance blend and tuning. With a tunefulmelody and nice swing feel this is a great addition to any program.

Essential Elements for Jazz Ensemble - Grade 1-2 This latest installment in the continuing adventures of Bubbert is a blues in a '60s boogaloo style. It's loaded with blues scale material that can be extremely helpful for beginning and developing soloists.

This Basie style swinger is a great tool for teaching balance blend dynamics and swing feel. Solo space is based on a B-flat scale and is very accessible to beginning players.

Mike Steinel. A valuable resource for learning the basics of jazz from Mike Steinel of the University of North Texas. It covers the basics of jazz how to build effective solos a comprehensive practise routine and a jazzvocabulary of the masters.

Conductor

Just like the train that Bubbert rides this jazz-rock minor blues (Bb minor) has a driving beat and is well-suited for the young band. A fun workout using the blues vocabulary.

Bb Tenor Saxophone

Bubbert must have been a cool cat! This original by Mike Steinel is written in a medium shuffle style and uses the blues scale for the easy improvisation section.