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Jazz Improvisation (Private Course)

“How am I be able to improvise from simply reading chords?” “There’re numerous of scales. How can I use them appropriately?” Have you always wanted to experience freedom in your music performance just like every Jazz player? Taught by experienced local Jazz musician Rod Chui, Flower Music 10’s Jazz Improvisation Course is designed for absolute beginner who has no experience in playing Jazz before! Here, you will get to experience, play and learn some easy and basic skills for Jazz improvisation! The only prerequisite of the course is to know how to operate your instrument. We welcome all pitched instruments and vocalists.

Class is conducted in Cantonese.

Course Fee: $2,400/4 lessons (1 hour each lesson, 4 lessons per month)

Rod is a local keyboardist, composer and arranger in Hong Kong. He has been involving in projects for film scoring, fashion functions, company promotions, animation productions and pop arrangements, both in Hongkong and Taiwan.

Early music influences including Hisaishi Jō, Nobuo Uematsu are the sources to his rich harmonic and orchestration concepts, which are the reasons to the uniqueness and enchantment of his work.

Rod is also an active member of the live music scene. Playing piano, accordian, and harmonica, Rod has worked mostly in jazz. His repertoire includes a wide range of genre including swing, funk, fusion and bossa nova. He has publicly performed in Peel Fresco, Kubrick, Java Java in Hong Kong, Jazz Café, Blue Note in Taipei, and the IFC Mall in ShangHai, and has a regular gig in Cali Cali (HongKong). He has played with musicians including Ted Lo, Eugene Pao, Tsang Tak Hong, Wilson Lam, Andrew Gander and Karissa Muse.