Part 1: Introduction toolbox

The part 1 of the Jam With Humans Music Improvisation Course is a deep dive into improvisational music. Five to nine strangers will meet for three hours every week for two weeks, and in the end will come out as a band, improvising together in your own show! This course features the unique improvisational style of Jam With Humans, not taught by any other music school.

This part of the course is an introduction to our music improvisation toolbox, which includes:

• learning how and when to take risks,
• practicing creativity techniques,
• collaborating with other musicians,
• delberately listening and playing with intention,
• solidifying your unique musical language,
• identifying and creating musical games.

Part 2: Language

You can join part 2 directly without having done part 1.

Our part 2 course focuses on practicing the skills required to identify and hone our musical language, shortening the relationship with our instrument and finding both what’s more comfortable for us to play and what does the audience prefer us to play. This allows us to create music which establishes a stronger relationship with the audience and ultimately helps us achieve a sound that’s recognasable as “our own”.

We’re also going to learn how to identify and describe the musical language of other musicians, an essential tool to produce improvised music as a cohesive group.

After attending this part, you’ll find out that it won’t be that hard to play fully improvised pieces which live out of the interactions between the different languages of the musicians on stage. You’ll become a better and more deliberate listener and the music you’ll produced will be more unique than ever.

Part 3: Games

You can join part 3 even if you’ve never done any other part before. 

This part of our music improvisation course will introduce you to the world of musical games!

But what are games? Well, put simply, they are ways to explore and establish how to interact with the other members of our group when improvising together.

In the part two we discovered how to make our individual music unique, and in this part we’ll discover how to make the music of the whole group unique.

We are going to start by exploring the small ways in which we can interact with one another, and by the end of the course, you will have the tools to create complete games on stage without having planned them in advance.

Part 4: Composition

You can only join part 4 if you have done parts 1 or 2.

The part 4 of the Jam With Humans Music Improvisation Course focuses on using everything we know about improvised music as a tool for composition of musical pieces. In this part, we’ll expore multiple parts of notating and registering music, from pen & paper to laptop & microphone.

We’ll also analyse and dissect the music of key composers, from the baroque to the contemporary period, learning about their approches and strategies in composition, which will then serve as inspiration to develop our own unique compositional styles.