This month in the Practise Club we are looking at the tune "Coquette". Check this excerpt of my etude of the month. (Transcription available for Premium and VIP members) We will be looking at little bits of this etude, taking it apart, practising it in different ways and using it to work on our own playing. 🏆Challenge 🏆 Record a video of yourself improvising over this backing track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcx7nV9ntaw For the first person to post a version I will create you a personalised exercise and a PDF with some advice on how to use it to further your playing.

My Jazz Violin Practise club is weekly session that assures you get some sort of jazz violin practise done each week. It’s a little like I just turned up at your house each week and made you try an interesting exercise for 40 minutes. Everyone apart from me is on mute and I guide you all through an interesting concept that is designed to help your playing and is easily boiled down into a simple repetitive exercise. If you want to try a free session, give me a message or comment on this post. We are practising tonight at 6pm UK time.

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!

Due to high demand we are looking at adding a spring edition of DOTI. My camp on the Isle of Wight focused around learning and playing Gypsy Jazz. If you are interested and potentially free April 24th-27th please let me know in the form below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeM-G-h97Wrn5vmiDCvF0qWXpiBntkqd9DcSY2XzIc6bP_uxQ/viewform?usp=header Matt

Hope you all had a great time seeing in the new year! What are your goals for 2026? Practise goals, music career goals? Goals surround enjoying music in new ways? I want to play more in tune and learn more traditional music.