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Jazz Improvisation Understanding of Jazz (Swing) style and ability to improvise or solo over standard 12 bar blues chord changes. Rubric Code: LX3475W By prumbley Draft Public Rubric Subject: Music Type: Assessment Grade Levels: 9-12

Jazz Improvisation
	Poor 20 pts	Fair 30 pts	Good 50 pts
Improvisation	Poor Inability to play an improvised solo using jazz articulations and blues scale notes from concert Bb, F, G, and C major key signatures.	Fair Ability to play an improvised 12 measure solo using some of the jazz articulations and notes from blues scale in concert Bb, F, G and C major concert key signatures.	Good Ability to play an improvised 12 measure solo using jazz articulations and from blues scale in concert Bb, F, G, and C major concert key signatures.
Articulation	Poor Inability to play notated jazz articulation markings on blues scale passages in concert Bb, F, G, and C major key signatures.	Fair Ability to play some of the notated articulation markings on blues scale passages in concert Bb, F, G, and C major key signatures.	Good Ability to play all notated jazz articulation markings on blues scale passages in concert Bb, F, G, and C major key signatures.
Blues Scale	Poor Inability to play ascending or descending blues scale in recommended concert key signatures.	Fair Ability to play ascending only in some of the recommending concert key signatures.	Good Ability of play ascending and descending blues scale in concert Bb, F, G, and C major key signatures.
Playing Style (Swing, Blues)	Poor Inability to grasp swing style and triplet feel. Need improvement on swing rhythm and style. More practice necessary to grasp concept of swing.	Fair Good style playing with triplet feel and rhythm. Some improvement and practice on swing feel and rhythm.	Good Excellent style playing with triplet feel and rhythm. Ability to play with ensemble in a swing style.