Stages

The course is divided into two subjects of your choice. Students can choose to devote themselves to various aspects of the repertoire dedicated to the instrument that is the organ. Or, devote oneself to improvisation, a musical oratory art, also very practiced on this instrument. The course will also offer "common class time" to discover the different types of instruments and their functioning (organ bill), through discussions, recordings. An instrument visit will also be scheduled.

If you want to discover or improve your knowledge of the guitar in its multiple facets, that you practice the classical guitar at the academy or that you strum alone in your room or that you play the electric guitar with your friends in a rock band whether you can read music or not, it doesn't matter:

The AKDT's small early music department offers you a lot of possibilities : violin / viola, recorder, harpsichord (and other keyboards: organ and pianoforte) and chamber music.

This singing course offers an immersion in jazz and vocal improvisation.

It is aimed at people who already have a practice of jazz as well as those who wish to embark on the adventure.

The course focuses on the different accordionistic and less accordionistic languages. How to improvise on this versatile instrument ?
Jazz / world / blues / hip-hop / punk or a simple waltz. Everything is possible !

Bass (electric and acoustic) will be our topic of debate for a week.
Technique, rhythm, how to develop a sound, function within a group, solo, bass walkings.

Work on sound, breathing, discovery or the development of improvisation.

Open to flutists and clarinetists.

During these interventions, we will discuss some points which seem to us indispensable for any improvising musician, whatever his instrument and the practiced style : Notions of form, sentence, rhythm, phrasing, ...

Learning to play jazz is a bit like learning to live together. Listen to others and simultaneously find one's own place, understand the differences of each artistic sensibility and try to share it.