Jazz Workout & Blues Workout

Follow-on workshop for students interested in jazz- and blues improvisation.

  • creative practice program
  • play-along video's
  • high-quality jamtracks

Jazz Workout

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The Jazz Workout and the Blues Workout offer you a program that enables you to improvise effortlessly on jazz standards and the blues. 

  • Can’t remember jazz standards?
  • Can’t get beyond improvising on a blues using the blues scale?
  • Feel overwhelmed by the amount of jazz repertoire and don’t know where to start?
  • Would you like to improvise in total freedom on chord progressions of jazz standards or the blues?

You too can improvise in complete freedom on jazz standards and the blues, learn them by heart and easily jam with other musicians.

What you need is a practice routine that gives you enough time to study the music thoroughly and to practice the exercises that inspire you and suit your level. Both the Jazz Workout and Blues Workout offer such a routine. Together, these courses offer you a year of study fun and provide a solid foundation that you can also apply to new jazz and blues repertoire. 

Each lesson of the Jazz and Blues Workout concentrate around one jazz or blues standard. You will practise together with handy play-along videos and inspiring jam tracks, deepening your understanding of harmony and melody along the way.

These lessons will also help you expand your repertoire, learn the language of jazz, fill the gaps in your theoretical knowledge and discover different stylistic angles. The program is completely in line with what you will have learned in the Mixed Harmony workshop.

'Having the material laid out has been amazing.
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The method gives me a logical way of working through the chord progressions in a musical way. I have always wanted to improvise but never really gone about it in an organised way as other things in life have taken priority. Having the material laid out has been amazing.

Tony Farrel
trumpet & saxophone

'Brilliant course, great teaching and materials.'

Brilliant course, great teaching and materials. I especially liked the new interactive highlighting of the melody paths on the standards - really helpful. I've found this process always leads me back into the basics and getting under the skin further.
Charlie Rice
bass clarinet

'I feel like a real musician now'

I have been playing guitar for many years now and have always felt technically
proficient, yet disconnected with music. After delving through a lot of the IFR content, taking private lessons and
taking Jelske's courses, I feel like I have grown immensely in my musicianship.
Although my ear is still developing, I feel like a real musician now.

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Josiah McCredie
guitar

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Improvise on jazz and blues in complete freedom

Discover how to play melodic solos on jazz sand blues tandards effortlessly. Learn them by heart, so you can play them together with others. The benefits to your playing include:

  • You will no longer feel overwhelmed by the amount of jazz and blues repertoire you still want to learn. You will know where you are, know what to practice now and what to expect in the future.
  • Improvise in total freedom on the chord progression of the jazz and blues standards offered. Don't get lost, know how to build your solo and tell your own musical story.
  • Become more adept at learning new standards, as you'll be able to recognize common chord combinations. This will give you more confidence when playing.
  • You'll become more flexible when a standard is played in a different version or key, because you will have trained yourself to be creative and flexible.
  • Develop your instrumental technique by studying the language of the great masters of jazz with specific exercises.
  • Fill the gaps in your theoretical knowledge by constantly making the link between the IFR method and music theory as applied in practice.
  • Build an ever-increasing repertoire that you can play at jam sessions, during concerts or with your musical friends.
  • Stay motivated because you are following a program that is not too difficult for you, but which, instead, helps you to make real progress.
  • By really understanding how a jazz or blues standard is structured, harmonically and stylistically, an increasing amount of the jazz repertoire becomes more transparent and accessible to you.

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