A short course on how to use this space to really fuel your progress for free!

Learn 3 essential jazz forms by ear: Blues, Jazz Standard, Minor Blues. Learn melodies and simple riffs by ear to make improvising feel natural. Build the core skills to play jazz violin with confidence. Currently includes 10 Tunes You Must Know — helping you start playing tunes with others.

A list of must know music for any jazz musician with a bunch of other classic and relativley unknown jazz violin and "gypsy jazz" too.

This is a little sample of my 10 Tunes You Must Know course.

Learn 10 essential jazz tunes and start playing with others. Learn melodies, understand harmony, and begin improvising in real musical situations. Includes chord tone and double stop exercises, practice tips, simple and more advanced melody versions to learn by ear, and colour-coded charts to help you understand the harmony.

A free jazz bowing course designed to help you start bowing in a way that works for jazz and swing playing.

A free taster of my larger 46 lines course. 5 lines over major and minor ii-V-Is, I-Vi-ii-V-I plus Major and Minor Chords

46 lines over major and minor ii-V-Is, I-Vi-ii-V-I plus Major and Minor Chords

This course is focused on helping you get chromatics into your playing in a practical way, without getting bogged down in too much theory. It’s based on my own system for learning and practising chromatic ideas so they start to come out naturally in your improvising. You’ll work on enclosures and a number of key chromatic devices, using them in a way that makes sense on the instrument and in the context of actual jazz lines. The aim is to build your own "jazz language".

All of the etudes we work on in the weekly zoom classes plus weekly updates exerxises that derive from the Etudes

All Q&A recordings

Mondays at 6pm (UK time). Live Zoom practise sessions for jazz violinists. We break down an etude or jazz solo slowly, repeat together, and learn how to turn great musical ideas into our own improvisation. Replays, PDFs, and a supportive community included. Show up, practise with guidance, and build real jazz language and confidence.

This is a focused 4 week coaching programme to help you break out of feeling stuck and start making real progress in your playing. It’s for people who want a clearer idea of what to practise and how to move forward. You’ll get 4 one-to-one lessons, detailed practice plans after each session, support in between, a long-term plan once the programme is finished, and a follow-up chat to keep things moving in the right direction.