If you’ve ever wanted to improvise confidently over songs and chord progressions, this course will show you how. You'll learn how chords and melodies work together in any key, how to hear the changes as you play, and how to improvise with complete melodic freedom even as the chords are changing all around you. By the end of the course, you'll be improvising beautiful solos over songs and chord progressions, weaving your own melodies effortlessly through the chords.
On June 6, this course will go on sale at our website for the regular price of $150. As a valued member of the IFR community, you can purchase the complete course right now for a 25% discount. This week only, you can get the complete course for just $150 $112.
Building on what you learned in Introduction to Improvising on Brass and Woodwinds, in this second level course you will learn how you can improvise with the same melodic freedom over changing chords. You'll learn to improvise your own solos over songs and chord progressions, weaving your own melodies effortlessly through the chords.
You'll learn to see the chord tones all around you when you are improvising. You'll learn to use these chord tones to create tension and release in your improvising. And you'll learn to play beautiful melodic solos that take your listeners on a musical journey.
What's special about Improvise for Real is that you'll learn to see all of these sounds on a single map of the musical terrain. You won't have to scramble to mentally change keys for each new chord, because all of the sounds will be right there in front of you. You'll be able to improvise with confidence and clarity, seeing the entire musical landscape that surrounds you.
What students say about this course:
"I searched the internet for someone who could teach me how to improvise on jazz chords. And there I discovered Jelske who introduced me to the IFR method and I was immediately captivated by it. This was exactly what I was looking for and needed. The approach is so clear and simple, why didn't I know about this before? I finally understood how improvising over standards worked! The IFR method is explained so well, so understandable, logical and in such a stimulating environment with good teachers and beautiful backing tracks to improvise with. IFR has helped me enormously to jam and improvise on jazz standards and other songs."
Annemarie Post (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
"There's something unique about the IFR vision of pedagogy: its clarity and consistency. There are no levels to validate. The musical landscape is there, fully available without excessive theory, ready to be joyfully discovered. Just like in real life, I can pull the thread that interests me and move forward at my own pace. Thanks to this course, I'm learning about harmony through my own exploration. And Jelske taught me how to tell my own musical stories, drawing on my own imagination and sensations. IFR is my musical home."
Annie Beucler (Lyon, France)
"I have been playing saxophone for about ten years after a thirty year hiatus. In all my past education I never experienced anything like the IFR method. IFR has completely upended how I practice, from focusing on music theory and technical exercises to focusing on my own creative expression with the sounds. This is very personal. Now, rather than working on something that is external to myself, I am working on something that is internal to myself. The music comes from within. This extends directly to the saxophone. To discover this has been absolutely exhilarating."
George Shinn (Kirksville, MO)
"Somewhere along the trail of my life, I discovered something extraordinarily profound. I discovered that if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. I am not a beginning musician. In fact, I have been involved in the process of improvisation for many years. However, I had become more and more frustrated and disillusioned with all the chord/scale formulas, licks and patterns. I felt that something was missing; that there must be a way to play purely from my imagination, but still understanding what I was doing. Then I discovered Improvise for Real and found exactly what I had been looking for. To understand music from the inside out. To REALLY improvise. To Improvise for Real!"
Theo Primas (New Jersey, USA)
From now through June 6 only, take advantage of our special discount to get this complete course for just $150 $112. You can watch the videos online or download them to your own permanent collection. All materials are yours forever.
Just click on the “Add to cart” button to purchase this course for $112. You can make your purchase with any major credit card and you can access the entire course immediately. And if you don't agree that this course is the best investment you ever made in your own musical creativity, just send us an e-mail within 60 days and we'll give you a full refund.
