My friend sent me this video of me playing a blues 13 years ago. It taught me a few things about myself and progress. Firstly, I don’t love it. It was difficult to see my technique, plus hearing my sound and intonation was a tough one. But it is great to see that the many hours of practise that I have done since then have really helped. I didn’t start out from a young age with good technique, I was a terrible violin student as a child and teenager, most of my work on this has been as an adult. Small amounts of practise consistently and a “long game” approach has helped me develop a lot as a violinist. This is something I believe in so much for all learners, there is no quick route to success with any instrumental practise. Some good things… It did remind me that I’ve had a good sense of swing for a while, I grew up around my jazz musician grandfather and spent summers when I was visiting going around with him to his gigs, playing “trad” jazz. Listening to this has really helped me take stock of what I could already do from a young age which in turn has helped me really think about how I help others who might not have had this exposure to jazz early on. I have some fun plans for helping others get themselves around jazz rhythms on here. There is a new course in the works! Please be kind in the comments...

I've been mucking around with this today, trying to find context to apply yesterday's PC motif. Here are short repetitive phrases over Coquette again. Ive targeted the 1st, 3rd and 5th of some of the chords. Not sure if it all works though. Also today, I tried running the motif through the modes in a few different keys (including G flat. That was painful!). However, it's amazing how well that works to really absorb the material. When you get back to 'easy' keys it flows so much better.

Questions by @Michael Cormican and @Julia Farrants answered!

Working on this transcription I’ve been trying for a while. It’s super hard. I’m focusing on getting at least the rest of the first a section down before I start trying to get it up to speed. Let me know what you are up to!

Hey all, I'll be doing another Q&A style livestream next week (Monday 2pm UK time) Priority given to my Premium and VIP members but anyone can ask anything you want about learning jazz violin. Let me know in the comments. There will be a video of this after the stream so dont worry if you cant make the timings. Matt