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Ready to finally play what you hear in your head?

Improvise with Jelske

Improvise with Jelske offers creative and well-organized workshops that teach you how to improvise by ear on your instrument in complete freedom. From amateur to professional, I’ve got your back!

Ready to finally play what you hear in your head?

Improvise with Jelske

Improvise with Jelske offers creative and well-organized workshops that teach you how to improvise on your instrument in complete freedom. From amateur to professional, I’ve got your back!

Laying the foundation

Introduction Workshop

Understand what you hear, play what you imagine and discover your own musical voice. Proven strategies for beginners and advanced players.

Diving into the deep

Follow-on Workshops

Deepen your understanding of harmony, discover rhythm as a creative key, or dive into the world of blues and jazz standards. For students who want more.

1-on-1 with Jelske

Private Coaching

Are you feeling stuck as a musician? Or do you want to finally learn to play what you hear in your head? In a 60–minute private lesson, I’ll get you started straight away

I now feel like a real musician

This is what proper musicians do! I thought I would never be able to do that as I have spent so many years reading parts. This is a new way of playing for me. Its funny, I now feel like a real musician, like I am not faking it anymore.

Julia Farrants

cello, United Kingdom

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This course has given me so much confidence

I've always had this phobia about playing improv in public with other instruments or people, I just could not do it. I even struggled to play with backing tracks. This course has taught me so much and given me so much confidence and has inspired me to go further with my music.

Sandy Czerwinski

flute, United States

I have gained a new self-image as a musician

Through this course I have gained a new self-image as a musician. Boundaries and limiting thinking have been dissolved: I can better recognize, feel and play music. Jelske brings in so many ideas and approaches that it always remains exciting.

Wolfgang Michel

guitar, Germany