Online
Improvisation
Classes For strings
Learn Violin, Viola & Cello
and Improvise to Your
Favorite Tunes.
All From The Comfort of Your Room!
Bowed Instruments Can Jam Too!
🎻Online private coaching in improvisation in jazz, blues, rock etc. for bowed instrumentalists of any level.
Learn an alternative approach to bowed instruments and improvisation on violin/viola/cello, facilitating knowledge derived from a variety of musical traditions and schools so you can jam along to your favorite music by ear.
Taught by award-winning jazz violinist Omer Ashano – internationally-acclaimed performer and graduate with honors of The Newschool Of Jazz And Contemporary Music in New York City.
start improvising
within 1 month
(or you can ask for a full refund)
About Omer Ashano
🎵 International performing and recording artist
🏆 Winner of the Seifert Competition for jazz violin
🏅 Winner of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation grant
🎻 Over 20 years of playing experience. Over 10 years of teaching experience
👨🏻🎓 Graduated with honors from The Newschool of Jazz and Contemporary Music
“Omer has taught swing, Gypsy swing and jazz violin at my Gypsy Jazz Weekend retreat since it’s inception in 2013- he is by far the most sought after instructor, and his students consistently praise the unconventional approach that makes both Omer’s music and his teaching exciting. He’s a pleasure to work with as well.”
“Aside from being an amazing performer, he is a fantastic teacher - explains and demonstrates in a very clear fashion, has lots of patience, and stimulates his students to work hard and to want to learn as much as they can from him.”
Jazz violin @ Hoodna, Tel Aviv
What happens in classes?
🎻 Learn how to improvise on violin, cello and viola.
🎻 Shapes of arpeggios and scales to be used as vocabulary for improvisation.
🎻 How to start improvising over any tune even with limited knowledge of music theory and vocabulary.
🎻 Harmony and theory basics to understand chord structures so we can figure out independently how to improvise on any chord progression.
🎻 Developing a stronger sense of rhythm and time so we can sound rhythmic and groovy while comprehending the rhythmic accent of a given musical genre.
🎻 How to use our voice as a tool of bridging the gap between our mind and the violin/viola/cello and to sharpen our musical hearing.
And much more!
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How Much Will It Cost Me?
You can get weekly personal coaching from me, tailored to your level of progress and knowledge for the price of
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$60 per hour class (4 classes - $240 billed monthly)
FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY – I offer a one-time Starter’s Pack Deal where you will receive 4 improvisation classes (one-hour long each) for the price of
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$180 only! (That’s basically one FREE class…)
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Lesson Excerpts
Check out these snippets from previous jazz violin/viola/cello lessons I gave. You might get some ideas of exercises to practice out of it!
Jazz violin/viola/cello lessons excerpts
Testimonials
About My
Teaching Philosophy
A few years ago a musician I really admire told me how he believes that every musician has to be teaching at some point in his career. He has seen it not only as a suggestion but as an obligation, a responsibility of an artist to pass on his knowledge for the next generations. My life circumstances only make this belief stronger within me year after year.
As a young violinist in Israel that experienced a crisis with Classical music and the Classical school, I’ve been looking around for non-classical violin teachers in vain. I’ve figured out that in order to play the music I want on the violin I’m going to have to teach it to myself, thus becoming an independent learner which is most likely the greatest gift I’ve ever received as a musician and a teacher.
I had to read books, watch videos, ask people how they practice, use my ears because I had no sheet music to any of the songs I wanted to play, I had to explore. I had to criticize myself, I had to remain conscious about my playing and what I think is missing in my playing in comparison to other players, analyze what is it that excites me in one’s music or playing. Most of all, I had the privilege to remain attentive to any new idea being suggested to me, because no one ever taught me what the “truth” is.
Be your own teacher. That is perhaps the only truth I would force upon my students.
As part of my teaching philosophy, I'm seeking to not only teach my students the skills they wish to acquire but to show them how to determine and teach themselves new skills they 'need' or desire to acquire.
With over 8 years of experience teaching private students of all levels and conducting Jazz violin workshops for small groups, I like to incorporate my knowledge in music teaching with other knowledge in learning techniques and education I've acquired through training in psychology, leadership and education, Alexander technique, teaching artistry, meditation and social work.
