Sheffield Youth Jazz Collective (Advanced)

Location: Red Tape Central
Day; Wednesday
Time: 6.15 – 7:15pm
Price: Category C  

To join this group sign up online at least 24 hours before the first attended rehearsal.

Director: Chris Burge with Jake Rees

Any Instrument welcome!

The aim of Sheffield Youth Jazz Collective (Advance) is to find your own voice as a jazz improviser whilst learning some of the standard (and not-so-standard) jazz repertoire. Although the main focus of the group is improvisation, we also work on ensemble playing within a small-group setting.

Our rehearsals focus on the key skills of jazz performance: improvisation, collaboration, creative performance ideas, and honing our all-round musicianship. Students are encouraged to take a lead in decisions about how we perform the pieces – you aren’t just told what to do each week! You will help to design the arrangements of the music you are playing, making decisions about introductions, endings, and different grooves. We love to be creative and inventive whilst still taking time to learn about the history of what has come before.

Sometimes we might play a piece of music written 80 years ago, and at other times music written within the last few years. We have had a number of students from the group go on to study jazz at conservatoires, and the group provides a brilliant grounding for wherever your musical journey takes you next.

You may be asked to join the intgermediate group first where you will be assessed and moved up when it is felt you are ready.

To join this group we would like you to have:

• - Good basic understanding of scales e.g Major scale and minor scale
• - Understanding of basic triads- major or minor
• - Technical facility on the instrument equivalent to grade 5

Fees: Membership for our groups is TOTALLY FREE if you are in receipt of free school meals or fit our bursary criteria. We don’t want cost to be an issue, the friends of Sheffield Music Hub support with bursaries, please email musichubprojects@sheffield.gov.uk if you need help with the cost of fees, whatever your circumstances.

Price Band C: £115 per term or £330 per year (September – July) If attending 2 or more Price Band A/B/C groups: £130 per term or £375 per year (September – July)

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