Get in the Swing - Play Jazz! Workshop

GET IN THE SWING

September’s Play Jazz! Workshop will be all about playing and exploration. Time to dust off your instrument after the summer holidays and get back in the swing! With reference to three well known standards – Honeysuckle Rose, Night and Day and It Could Happen to You, we’ll get our fingers/ears/hearts back up to speed. With a particular focus on improvisation we’ll explore these great tunes, and learn to navigate them effectively using harmonic simplification techniques. Harmonic simplification is the process by which, through simple analysis, some chords may be reinterpreted and often omitted, making the task of navigating the changes far simpler. An invaluable technique for all improvising musicians.

About Play Jazz! workshops
Play Jazz! is a series of introductory workshops focusing on specific aspects of jazz improvisation, running on the first Saturday of each month (except January and August). Each workshop is different. The Play Jazz! workshops are intended to appeal to a wide range of musicians including those who

play other styles of music but are new to jazz
play written music but want to learn to improvise
have not played for a while and want to refresh their skills
want to meet and play with other jazz musicians.

Suitable for all instrumentalists and improvising vocalists. Minimum age 16.

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