Stop Practicing Alone. Start Playing Like a Real Jazz Musician.
Twice-weekly live workshops where you learn the right concepts, get immediate feedback from Josh, and build the confidence to improvise without sheet music.
Most jazz pianists get stuck in a loop: practicing alone, unsure if they're doing it right, moving too fast through concepts or getting distracted by YouTube rabbit holes.
Our workshops break that cycle.
Join a small group twice each week to work on a focused topic, play through real standards, and get direct feedback from Josh on what's working and what's holding you back.
You'll learn faster because you're not wasting time on the wrong approach. You'll stay accountable because the group expects you each session.
And you'll finally gain the confidence to sit down at any piano and create music in the moment, no sheet music required.
Most jazz piano students can play their scales. The problem isn't the notes, it's that the lines don't go anywhere. They sound like exercises because they only do one thing: land. Real jazz lines are constantly doing something else too, moving toward the next chord tone with a sense of purpose and forward pull. That's what separates a solo that feels alive from one that just sounds correct.
This Friday's members workshop teaches you exactly how to build that motion into your lines. We'll start from the ground up, showing how arpeggio motion works as a gesture aimed at a target, then combining it with the bebop scale technique from last week to create phrases that move and land the way real jazz solos do. If you've ever wondered why your lines sound like scales even when you're doing everything right, this is the session.
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Most jazz piano students can play their scales. The problem isn't the notes, it's that the lines don't go anywhere. They sound like exercises because they only do one thing: land. Real jazz lines are constantly doing something else too, moving toward the next chord tone with a sense of purpose and forward pull. That's what separates a solo that feels alive from one that just sounds correct.
This Friday's members workshop teaches you exactly how to build that motion into your lines. We'll start from the ground up, showing how arpeggio motion works as a gesture aimed at a target, then combining it with the bebop scale technique from last week to create phrases that move and land the way real jazz solos do. If you've ever wondered why your lines sound like scales even when you're doing everything right, this is the session.
Theron Brown is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator based in Akron, Ohio, originally from Zanesville, Ohio. Raised in a church family where his father was a pastor, he discovered music early on through drums, piano, and viola, later pursuing jazz studies at the University of Akron. Brown has toured nationally and internationally, leads his own trio, and is best known locally as the founder and artistic director of the Rubber City Jazz & Blues Festival, created to celebrate and grow Akron’s jazz legacy. An in‑demand educator, he serves on the jazz faculty at the University of Akron and works as artist coordinator for the I Promise School through Curated Storefront, mentoring young musicians and engaging deeply with the community arts scene. Beyond the bandstand and classroom, Brown portrayed a young Herbie Hancock in Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic “Miles Ahead,” highlighting his range as both a performer and artist.
Thembi Dunjana joins us this week for a special session about the importance of "All 12 Keys."
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You're an intermediate player stuck despite years of practice and theory knowledge.
Maybe you're a classically trained pianist trying to break free from sheet music. Or a self-taught player who knows scales but can't make solos sound musical. You've been playing for decades but your improvisation still sounds mechanical.
You know what to play. You just don't know how to make it sound like real jazz.
That's exactly what these workshops fix.
Instruments welcome: Piano, guitar, bass, horns. Josh teaches from the piano, but the concepts work across all instruments.
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