This is your spot to log what you're working on, whenever you practise. No pressure to post daily, just whenever you've had a session and want to note it down or share it. It could be something you've been working on, in your own time or with lessons with me. Anyone in here can post! Comment below with: 📅 Date: 🎻 What I worked on: ⏱️ Time practised: 🎉 One win: 🤔 One thing I'm stuck on: Doesn't need to be polished. A quick video or voice note works just as well if you'd rather show than write. I'll be dropping my own practise notes in here too, not just replying to yours. And if you've got a spare minute, leave a comment on someone else's check-in as well. Even just a "nice work" will help us all feel motivated to keep on keeping on! Drop your first check-in below 👇

A few of you have mentioned this recently : too much on your list, and once you start on one thing you might fall down a rabbit hole or end up somewhere else entirely and lose a practise session to it. It's a real hurdle, and it's harder than it used to be. The internet is throwing new, exciting concepts at us constantly, and it's easy to end up burnt out on information and stuck in practice paralysis before you've even picked up the violin. Here's the structure I use myself, and with my students. It's not an exhaustive list of everything you need to work on, but it's a solid shape to hang a session on: 1. Scale work, either a major or minor scale over a drone (I've got a bunch of variations on this) or an enclosure exercise (you probably know by now I have hundreds of these). 2. Transcription, either starting something new, or working different lines and ideas out of a transcription I've done recently. 3. Creative but challenging, usually taking ideas from step 2 and applying them over a sequence. 4. Creative and easy, playing over a tune I already know well and I'm comfortable on. If I get all four into a session, I feel like I've actually gone somewhere, rather than just spent time. Here's the thing though, structure alone isn't going to solve all your problems, firstly knowing how to fill that structure isn't always easy and sometimes too much self direction can lead to self doubt really quickly. Especially at the start of your journey into learning something new, If you want help with that, you can always book a call with me below. 👉 https://scheduler.zoom.us/matt-holborn/jazz-violin-chat

It’s your first day! Congrats for taking the challenge. Comment “day 1” on this post so we can cheer you on and get cracking in the course in the classroom! In our first video lesson in the course we are looking at learning the melody to Lady Be Good by ear and committing it to memory, using it to bounce off of with some improv. Use this thread to ask any question or post your progress video when you have practised the steps in the video. Happy practising

I mentioned this tonight in Practise Club. Love his mastery of the instrument and groove here!

Just watched the first Blues lesson? Here's your task. Have a go at soloing over the Blues in F backing track using the five lines and the sounds we work on in the video. Take a couple of the lines, play around with them, and record whatever comes out. Post your video below, or just let us know how you're doing and if you have any questions. Getting the first one down is the hardest part 🎵