RJS - Guitar Intermediate
Come and join our Saturday Jazz School. 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.
RJS - 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
RJS - Summer Jazz Guitar Intensive
This three-day SUMMER JAZZ GUITAR INTENSIVE course will be taught by Mike Outram at Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College from Tuesday 16 to Thursday 18 July. You will have played guitar for at least two years and have a good basic working knowledge of the guitar including chords and scales and be able to accompany songs, pick out melodies, etc. You will probably have some practical playing experience
RJS - Summer Jazz School
Richmond Jazz School is an integral part of the music department at Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College. RHACC is one of the UK s major providers of Jazz Education for Adults offering courses throughout the year for all levels of ability and aspiration. Each Saturday more than 25 students already attend the Richmond Jazz School and they give regular performances in the area.The Richmond Summer Jazz School is as an intensive studying experience. This year it is to run over five days and is open for all instrumentalists and vocalists. This course is for people who love playing/singing music and wish to build upon this and improve. You will draw upon our expertise, significant set of resources and nationally recognized team of tutors. We welcome current and past students as well as looking forward to meeting new students.
You will have the opportunity to learn through playing/singing in different Jazz Ensembles, rhythm workshops, jam sessions and public performances. You will have the opportunity to learn and mix with jazz professionals and develop your technique, confidence and improvisation skills in a supportive, creative and stimulating environment. Courses include Jazz Singing, Jazz Vocal Performance, and instrumental tuition on a wide range of instruments.
RJS - Friday Summer Intensive
This immersive all day jazz course is a continuation and taster course for the longer 3 week Richmond Jazz School 1 Year Course and will provide an environment for you to develop and review your jazz musicianship in a creative and support group.
Open to all instrumentalists and vocalists this practical course will focus on the in depth exploration of a course repertoire of 3 or 4 pieces and weave all aspects of jazz development into the sessions. Technical work and objectives will be developed alongside rhythmic work and the continued exploration and application of jazz harmony to understanding jazz pieces and developing your personal strategy for improvisation.
RJS - Jazz Funk Workshop
This exciting jazz ensemble is for all instrumentalists and vocalists and will explore Jazz, Funk and soul repertoire within a practical jazz ensemble format.
RJS - Jazz Workshop 3
There are three Jazz Workshops on Wednesdays. Jazz Workshop 3 could be said to be, as much as music can ever be categorised intermediate. We have a repertoire of tunes each term which we study. We discuss and practice elements of jamming and playing in an ensemble but the emphasis is on being a workshop rather than a polished ensemble. We try and learn the tunes, listen carefully and improvise. This is a particularly lovely group and the atmosphere is very supportive, relaxed and nobody judges anyone else. This group has been improving enormously together recently is really getting very good.
We develop our rhythmic and harmonic awareness and have a lot of fun.
All instrumentalists and singers are welcome
RJS - Jazz Workshop 1
There are three Jazz Workshops on Wednesdays. Jazz Workshop 1 could be said to be, as much as music can ever be categorised, upper-intermediate. We have a repertoire of tunes each term which we study. We discuss and practice elements of jamming and playing in an ensemble but the emphasis is on being a workshop rather than a polished ensemble. We try and learn the tunes, listen carefully and improvise. The atmosphere is very supportive, relaxed and nobody judges anyone else. We develop our rhythmic and harmonic awareness and have a lot of fun.
All instrumentalists and singers are welcome
RJS - Jazz Workshop 2
There are three Jazz Workshops on Wednesdays. Jazz Workshop 2 could be said to be, as much as music can ever be categorised, advanced. We have a repertoire of tunes each term which we study. We discuss and practice elements of jamming and playing in an ensemble but the emphasis is on being a workshop rather than a polished ensemble. We try and learn the tunes as much as possible from memory and by ear. We listen carefully and discuss some advanced concepts of improvisation. We develop our rhythmic and harmonic awareness and often really stretch out musically.
All instrumentalists and singers are welcome
Charles Alexander
Charles Alexander began his musical career as a jazz guitarist in Edinburgh and also ran the Edinburgh University Jazz Club. From 1973, for nine years, he was Director of the Jazz Centre Society in London, producing hundreds of jazz events ranging from weekly jazz club events to full scale jazz...
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