Jazz Vocal Performance
Your course led by Linley Weir will further develop your jazz singing in a practical, fun and creative environment which will offer you much opportunity to perform. Your individual style will be nurtured and developed throughout the course.This course will take place onsite at Parkshot. Risk assessments on all our singing classes are undertaken prior to the start of the course and our teachers have been trained to follow and implement control measures. The main measures to mitigate risk on our singing courses are the requirement that learners are to be seated in allocated seats in order to maintain social distancing. Learners must not be positioned face to face when singing and will be positioned back-to-back or side-to-side. In addition, our rooms will have good ventilation.
Jazz Rhythm Section Workshop - Intermediate
For pianists, guitarists, bassists and drummers, this Rhythm Section Workshop will examine and develop a repertoire of standard tunes and arrangements for you to develop your performance skills and confidence within the jazz rhythm section.
Jazz Performance Ensemble 1
This Jazz Ensemble class will examine and develop a repertoire of standard tunes and arrangements for you to develop your performance skills and confidence within the ensemble.
This group will work at an upper intermediate level.
Jazz Performance Ensemble 2
This Jazz Ensemble class will examine and develop a broad repertoire of standard and modern jazz tunes and arrangements for you to develop your performance skills and confidences.
This group will work at an advanced level.
Jazz Ensemble 1
This Jazz Ensemble class will examine and develop a repertoire of standard tunes and arrangements for you to develop your performance skills and confidence within the ensemble.
This group will work at a lower intermediate level.
Jazz Guitar - Intermediate
If you are a guitarist who is already competent in other styles, or has recently started to play jazz, this course will equip you with the basic technical skills and musical knowledge for playing jazz on the guitar.
The course is "hands-on", designed to help you develop your guitar technique and expand your knowledge of chords, scales, arpeggios and melodic patterns on the guitar. From the start you will learn to play jazz tunes - their chord progressions and melodies - and begin to improvise on them. You will receive guidance in developing your improvisation, accompaniment and performance skills and an understanding of music theory. We also study the work of the major jazz guitarists and other leading jazz artists.
Jazz Guitar - Advanced
Your course will support and further explore all aspects of your jazz guitar playing and you will be comfortable playing jazz standards and wish to further develop in a supportive but challenging environment at a more advanced level. This course is run at the Jazz School at our Richmond site in London
Jazz Saxophone - Intermediate
On this exciting practical course, you will further explore all aspects of your jazz saxophone playing. You will be comfortable playing some jazz standards and wish to develop in a supportive but challenging environment at a more advanced level.
Watercolours & Drawing from Scratch
A course suited to the complete beginner in watercolour painting, introducing the basic techniques required in order to gain some confidence and mastery of the medium
Painting & Drawing from Scratch
This course is for absolute beginners or those with little experience in drawing and painting. It is aimed at giving you an introductory grounding in drawing and painting and providing the tools and techniques for you to continue practising independently or within one of our more advanced courses.
