HOW TO IMPROVISE A SOLO?
with Ondřej Zámečník
Transcribe!
Come to a workshop where you'll learn:
– How to listen to and transcribe solos from recordings
– How to get the maximum out of transcriptions for your own playing
– How to master new licks, harmonies and grooves
HOW TO IMPROVISE A SOLO? is a series of workshops focused on jazz improvisation. We try to share jazz know-how in a digestible and easy way, without unnecessary whiplashes. But these are not workshops for complete beginners, and you also need to like jazz a bit.
Date: 6.5. 20:00
Length of the lesson: 90 minutes
Price: 350,-
HARMONY - from theory to practice
with Vlastimil Jeřábek
Would you like the Ab-7 symbol to mean more to you than just “I'm going to press it here like this”, C#m9add13/G to be more than just an unnecessarily complicated Wi-Fi password, and would you like instead to understand a little of the black magic called harmony? If you don't want to learn the accompaniment to every song mindlessly by heart or forever rely on playing the letters from iReal and you're wondering how things can be done differently, this course is for you!
What's it all about? We'll definitely have to start with the theoretical basics. Don't worry about the scary word theory, the course will be as tailored as possible to the students and we will link everything to practice. If you're struggling to find a dominant quickly (or don't even know what it is), we'll work on that. If you have the basics covered and are more interested in what the tritone substitution and Neapolitan chord are, no problem.
Course goal - as much as possible “is it that simple?” and “aha” moments. To develop a relative understanding of harmony - so that it doesn't matter if you play in E or Bb and when playing without paper you don't have to guess the chords, but you know what's going on in the background, and why, and you could add some harmonic spice to the piece.
target group: mainly harmonic instruments (and also bass)
music style: general, without focus
Prerequisites: basic music theory (knowing where the notes are on the keyboard will be an advantage)
Date: 15.5. - 5.6. 20.00, 4 lekce
Length of the lesson: 90 minutes
Price: 1500,-
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HOW TO IMPROVISE A SOLO?
with Luka Cojhter
Melodic soloing through the changes.
This workshop will focus on melodic soloing in the context of
minor blues progression and major 2-5-1s.
We will explore harmonic possibilities and learn to view the chords differently, rather than playing them literally.
The goal is to make our solos sound more hamonicaly „in“ and melodic in the same time.
Datum: 15.4. 20:00
Takové to domácí nahrávání s Jankem
A series of workshops loosely based on Janek's Sound Rescuers will introduce the concepts of home recording in four sessions. The complete crash course will include theoretical preparation as well as live recording of a performance by one of the Kohútek's bands (in a school classroom space), as well as subsequent post-production and export of the final demo recording. The course grad will be equipped with the skills and knowledge to create simple promos for their own or a friend's band.
Terms: 27.3., 31.3., 7.4., 14.4. always at 20:00
HOW TO IMPROVISE A SOLO?
with Petr Smékal
Everything you need to know about the Blues! Part one... out of many 🙂
We will focus on:
- most common variants of the blues form
- Blues melodics and the usage of the blues scale.
- Explanation of principles such as call & response, tension & release and application of these concepts to instrumental soloing.
Datum: 25.3. or 1.4. 20:00
With a higher number of registrants, we'll try come up with 2 terms
HOW TO IMPROVISE A SOLO?
with Josef Hanulík
How to work with a motive (either the motive of the melody itself, or any other that comes to mind during the solo).
We'll break down a simpler standard together and demonstrate the use of a motif when composing a melody, as well as try our own motivic improvisation.
Date: 4.3. 20:00
HOW TO IMPROVISE A SOLO?
with Vít Beneš
Chords played melodically aka arpeggios are the very foundation of the jazz language. We'll look at how to practice them and show some ways to enrich our improvisation with them.
The chords will help you find those "right notes" and create melodies that progress with the harmony in harmony.
As well as knowing the main melody (theme), knowing the chords is very useful for other creative methods of jazz improvisation.
The description's pretty boring, I admit.
Date: 18.2. 20:00
HOW TO IMPROVISE A SOLO?
with Petr Svoboda
This is a preparatory workshop that will be followed by a series of other workshops under the title "How to improvise a solo?" focusing on jazz improvisation.
With Mr. Svoboda we will look at how to learn new compositions in order to get the most out of them in the following improvisation. He'll be coming all the way from far away Prague to tell you all about it, so don't miss it. The lesson will be followed by an hour jam.
Date: 4.2. 17:30