Jazz Preparatory Track
The Jazz Preparatory Track (the JPT) is our in-house preliminary programme, our pre-bachelor. This course focusses on talented and ambitious musicians who wish to prepare in a most thorough way for our Jazz Bachelor.
The Jazz Preparatory Track is a compact course that will immerse you in important aspects of Jazz Education like Theory, Performance, Methodology (“how to…”). The JPT is first and foremost a performance course. The Theory and Method lessons are designed to support your performance skills. The method training has a special place in the course for knowing how to study enables you to effectively work on your own.
The lesson content ranges from general musical theory, functional harmony and ear training to improvisation techniques and the basics of singing, and lots more. Ensemble playing is in the center of the course – here all instrumental skills and theoretical knowledge comes together.