Phil Meadows’ Online Jazz School
Take your skills to the next level!
Welcome!
What’s included?
New video lessons and PDF downloads uploaded every month to our members portal!
Join, discuss music and share your progress with a community of like-minded learners in our exclusive Facebook community group.
Enjoy an array lessons and exercises that will keep you improving for years.
Take part in our weekly challenges and get direct video feedback both from Phil and the other jazz school members.
Get the answers and explanations you need to progress with the weekly hour-long live Q&A, hosted on Zoom.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Can I learn?
With new content released every month, here’s a list of the current module pages on the online portal. There’s enough to keep you busy for years and you’ll find new material dropping on all pages as the next few months unfold.
Current Modules:
Harmony // Concepts of Improvisation // Aural Skills // Jazz Language and Transcription // Repertoire // Listening // How to Practice //Recommended Resources.
Coming Soon:
Feel and Time Signatures // Ensemble Skills // Composition and Arranging.
Testimonials.
How much does it cost?
£25 per month.
That’s less than the price of a single, one-to-one lesson!
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FREE Lessons
Harmony - introduction.
Enjoy this FREE introduction to the Major scale! Note that this is a beginner level lesson and the starting point for harmonic knowledge. Lessons begin from here and cover everything through to advanced level content. - this is just an example of how it looks and feels.
The next few lessons in our harmony module introduce minor ii V I’s, secondary dominants, back door ii V I’s and tritone substitutions.
Aural Skills - Interval Test.
Learning aural skills is a critical aspect of learning to improvise and play jazz music. We have a wide range of lessons and exercises to help you improve the connection between your ear, your voice and your instrument.
Take one of our aural tests below and see how you get on:
Concepts Of Improvisation - Play - Rest - Rest.
In Concepts of Improvisation we focus on our approach to improvisation. This can include melodic games (like the example below), looking at a famous players approach, or adding in some specific era-based harmonic concepts, such as chromatic approach in be-bop.
Repertoire - Recordame.
We encourage all of our students to try and learn in the aural tradition. The repertoire uploaded breaks the chord sequence down into an easily understandable and very memorable Roman numeral system that allows for fast recall and transposition. We also offer the chord/scale relationships for those newer to harmony.
Check out Joe Henderson’s Latin tune Recordame for an example: