Willard "Will" Jordan

Hello, my name is Willard Jordan and I have taught and perfomed as a woodwind musician for 30+ years, in a myriad of styles/genres and with many different ensembles. From my early student-musician days as strictly a saxophonist until the present (I now play  Akai EWI and all woodwind instruments), the following have remained constant: my absolute love, passion and thirst for musical excellence and sharing my knowledge with those with musical aspirations. Whether performing in orchestras/wind ensembles, opera/musicals, big band, rock bands, reggae bands, or small jazz groups, I have found my classical training, theory, and the ability to sight-read and write music invaluable. The aforementioned constants are exactly what I will attempt to impart to my students, along with musical knowledge.

I also have 20+ IT/Computer Tech experience, which affords me the abillity to share my knowledge: of  building "Hackintoshes" [PC Based MAC's], Android Devices (Rooting), IOS devices (Jailbreak), Apps, Installation, customizing, trouble shooting, configuring, networking, upgrading and firmware updating of your various equipment.

OVERVIEW:

All instruction tailored to the needs, skills and knowledge of the individual student.

All students, when applicable/when ready for will be provided full downloadable access to multiple "cloud" sites of mine, w/ a huge amount of sheet music, music books, study guides, tutorials, apps, play alongs, plugins, musical performnce videos, improvised solo transcriptions, midi and audio files.

Cloud list: 2x50 GB Mega.nz.co, Dropbox, Google Drive and iCloud.

Evaluation of Skills:

1)Music/Sight Reading 2)Fingerings/Technique 3) Articulation/Tongueing  4) Ear/Intonation 5)Dexterity/Fludity 6) Rhythm/Tempo

Techniques for Akai EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument) to improve one's application of any level of woodwind proficiency for this wonderfully expressive instrument.

Classical Music  Interpretation/Peformance of Bozza Ferling Klose Rubank etc.

Interpretation of many styles/genres of music ie; Jazz, Latin, Funk, R&B etc.

Theory, Chord syllabus, and Scale/Mode usage training.

Improvisation skills/techniques/vocabulary for various genres/styles.

Introduction to Logic Pro X  DAW (Digital Audio Workstation}.

Logic Pro X, plugins AU/settings.

Logic Pro X and Akai EWI integration.

Well supported/compatible 3rd party plugins suggestions/settings for EWI and Logic.

Recording techniques and tips for Logic and EWI.

Perform and or record grooves, loops, etc...

Hone your musical ear/realtime sight reading/performance/improvisation skills by performing  with play-alongs.

[Examples: Jamey Aebersold, Hal Leonard, Ramon Ricker etc.]