this might sound dramatic 😅

but for a long time i really felt like my career as a jazz musician was sort of over.

so i slowly shifted more and more into:
teaching
filming tutorials
making PDFs
explaining improvisation

instead of actually improvising.

and the strange thing is:
you can become VERY productive while quietly avoiding the thing you actually want to do.

last week i realized there is a professional bass player living in the hinterhaus of our house. so we met up, recorded some standards and just played:

Blue Monk
Donna Lee
How Deep Is The Ocean
All The Things You Are

and honestly it reminded me of something important:

you can practice and transcribe for years…but only when you actually play with other musicians do all those tiny ideas suddenly start connecting.

some ideas worked.
some completely fell apart.
some surprised me.

but i left the session feeling inspired again.

and because of all this i finally released something i have been working on for a very long time:

“12 Creative Jazz Guitar Studies”

40 pages with clickable lesson videos and lots of small modern improvisation concepts inspired by players like:
Pat Metheny
Scofield
Kurt Rosenwinkel
Joe Pass
Wes Montgomery

the idea is not to overwhelm you with information.

take ONE idea and really go deep with it.enjoy exploring,
tina