Once again I’m not in practise mode this weekend. Gigging everyday and playing cars with my son in the day. If this weekend is all about practise for you, what’s your focus? Otherwise, how are you enjoying the weekend? Matt

Workin on this piece right Now, was going though YT fór a bit of inspiration And found this

workin mostly on something else lately, but this piece is just so much fun 🤯

I’m not that inspired with my own playing at the moment. It might be just that I’m really focusing on my teaching at the moment which I am very inspired by (thanks to you all) It could be that I’m pretty tired in general as I’m always rushing about between teaching, gigging around London and looking after my son. I don’t have much time to work on anything too tangible right now, Or it could just be a random phase, Iv had it before and il have it again. It’s really just part of trying to progress something long term. You make jumps at points and sometimes you feel a plateau. It has to work like that, nothing just goes up! My “go to” when I’m not inspired is transcription. Iv started digging into a Parker solo over a Db blues. It’s a bit of a challenge for me, I’m hoping it sees me through to our upcoming transcription Lab next Monday night for VIP members. Maybe by then I’ll be back raring to go and start finding more space to practise hard again. But maybe not. Happy to keep showing up regardless, I know how fun music can be when I am inspired. Sometimes you just have to wait it out. What’s your “go to” thing to play when you don’t have that spark?

Challenge! Record your version of this, depending on what’s doable for you, either… In the original key (C Major over a G7) In a few other keys Inside an improvisation over a standard Or as we did last night in practise club, see below… We worked on this one in practise club last night. We took the pattern that this line is based on and played it all the way through all the chords in the C major scale, helping us understand why the melody works and how we can use it. What does this do? Helps us navigate the major scale with patterns and enclosures Drills the sound into our ears and fingers Serves as a technical exercise for our left hand If you are interested in trying out the jazz violin practise club for freejust send me a message or comment on this post.