This course introduces you to jazz violin through the 12-bar blues. You’ll learn the essential notes and sounds of blues tonality, pick up simple riffs and licks by ear, and begin improvising with confidence. The focus is on getting a feel for jazz through your instrument rather than the page, giving you a solid starting point for learning more tunes.

In this course, you’ll learn a simple American Songbook form using I Can’t Give You Anything but Love. We focus on picking up the melody by ear, understanding how the structure works, and creating clear, melodic jazz solos. This introduces you to one of the most common foundations of jazz repertoire and prepares you to take on many more standards in the future.

Building on the first two courses, we explore the minor blues — this is an intro into playing a minor key. You’ll learn a melody by ear, understand the harmony in a practical way, and develop improvising ideas that connect strongly to the chords. This course strengthens your ability to play through one of the most common and ubiqutous minor chord prgressions.

Get started on your jazz violin journey with this complete beginner bundle. You’ll learn a blues, a minor blues and an American Songbook tune, building the skills to play and improvise with confidence. Includes full access to my Ten Tunes You Need to Know course, giving you essential jazz standards to learn by ear and play at jam sessions while deepening your understanding of real jazz playing.

A guide to your first 10 tunes to learn and how to learn them.

All of the etudes we work on in the weekly zoom classes

A collection of exercises based on enclosure shapes and chromatic ideas found in jazz. This material is designed to help you work on technique, scale practice and getting your fingers around those tricky jazz-influenced patterns. These lines and shapes will enrich your improvising while doubling up as a vehicle for whatever you need to work on technically.

Mondays at 6pm (UK time). Live Zoom practise sessions for jazz violinists. We break down an etude or jazz solo slowly, repeat together, and learn how to turn great musical ideas into our own improvisation. Replays, PDFs, and a supportive community included. Show up, practise with guidance, and build real jazz language and confidence.

Want to really push your playing and make real progress? For a one off fee you get A course of 4x 1-1 lessons and round the clock support. A detailed practise plan to ensure you succeed in your goals. 2 monthly check-ins after the course has finished Access to VIP content for 3 months