I have started to create a new course for you all. It will be available on all paid plans once finished. A sample is in the Classroom and I wanted your feedback on how it seems so far. The plan is to have the chapters laid out as they but with video example attached too. Each different enclosure and approach note will have an explanation page with some playable examples and some lines built with the enclosures, followed by a set of exercises (in PDF form) that I've designed to help you drill them into your playing (plus some other ideas injected in there too). Its a little like my book "Enclosure Studies For Jazz Violin" but laid out a little more like I wanted and with more of an emphasis on the long exercises I like to use to practise them. (I had to change my book a lot to go with the format that the publishing company generally worked with) Please go check it out in the Classroom and either comment on here or message me directly with your thoughts. Matt

“Jazz Long Playing” (a play on words based on Jean Luc Ponty’s initials was Jean Lucs first recording as a leader. It was probably the first real bebop violin albums and it was his way of showing world “hey look, the violin can do this too”. Jean Luc was at a prestigious classical conservatorie in Paris when he was young. Back then the world wasn’t so open and his classical teacher forbid him from playing jazz. He still did it but had to keep it secret or he would lose his place at the conservatoire. Check out a great track from the album here.

Just followed your Class 1 on the Blues Matt - so helpful and great to get away from the dots and focus on the ears!

I’d like to try a new monthly Q&A format on here. Giving people the option of asking questions for me to answer in a livestream each month. Use this thread to ask me anything that’s been on your mind about learning jazz violin and Il try to answer them in the most practical way possible. Il be prioritising premium and VIP members and anyone who has bought my courses however anyone can ask a question and Il try to fit it all in. Let’s try it!

I tried Kreutzer with Matt's basic jazz bowings - surprisingly tricky!! I hadn't realised how closely my LH is tied to my RH, and changing the latter quite upset it in places 😂