My name is Yuval Cohen,
and I am inviting you to
embark with me on the journey of
unveiling your musical creativity.
I will personally walk you and support you as
you integrate each element of Jazz Improvisation.
Discover the inner workings of the music and explore the vast possibilities as
you master the skills and create your own art.

Join Unveiling Jazz Improvisation
and
make your musical dream become a reality within 12 weeks.

Unveiling Jazz Improvisation is for you if:
- You are proficient in your instrument
- You can read music
- You are familiar with basic harmony
- You are eager to play jazz

No prior experience in improvisation needed!

UV METHOD

Unveiling Jazz Improvisation

Crazy Bonus:
Register by Jan 1, 2023,
and get

Ongoing Feedback:

I am inviting you to send me
unlimited recordings of yourself playing through assignments,
whenever you like throughout the entire duration of the course
for (almost) immediate feedback.
In most cases, I will send you my comments within one hour.
This way, your practicing is the most effective,
and you can constantly
fine-tune your playing.

Twelve Weekly Live Lectures
In the Live Lectures, I will present each concept, explain it, and break it down until it is clear to all participants. I will show the assignments which will enable you to implement each concept in your playing.
You will also get practicing strategies, and a list of common pitfalls to avoid. You will be encouraged to ask questions during the lectures.

Live Lectures are about 1 hour long

Unveiling Jazz Improvisation is
Live Online And Includes:

On top of that, you will get
TWO Additional Lectures
to get you fully oriented and close any gaps you may have in the
knowledge needed for the course.

Twelve Weekly Group Coaching Sessions
During the Group Coaching Sessions, participants are invited to play through the exercises and receive feedback, as well as further guidance and tailored practice advice if needed.
The group Coaching Sessions make sure you stay on track with the pace of the course and are ready for the following lecture.

Group Coaching Sessions are 60-75 minutes long 

Six Individual Lessons
You will also get SIX Individual Lessons with me, which you can book anytime during the course. During these meetings, I will listen to you play and give you specific assignments and points to focus on.
This way, you can get additional support whenever you need it.

Individual Lessons are 15 minutes long.

Written and Recorded Material:
Every week, you will receive written material: information sheets, exercises and sheet music, as well as a clear set of assignments for the week along with video demonstrations.
You will also get access to the recordings of the Live Lectures, so you can watch them again if you missed them or in case you wish to reinforce the information.

The documents and recordings are for you to keep. 

As a Special Bonus, I am also offering
Additional SIX Individual Lessons
This means you can work with me on a weekly basis.

During the lockdowns of the pandemic, I spent dozens of hours going over my teaching ideas and strategies which I developed and evolved through these years. I consolidated them and organized them methodically into this well-structured course, Unveiling Jazz Improvisation. When you enroll in this course, you will improve your playing and master your newly acquired skills in Sound, Rhythm, Harmony and Melody so you can express yourself in Jazz.
The format of the course will enable you to cover a lot of material that you can revisit at any time, and have your progress monitored and guided along the way. This is my fifth launch of the course, which I keep tweaking and improving.
Join the students who completed the course and can improvise jazz now.

About Me

My name is Yuval Cohen.
I have been playing Jazz and Classical music professionally for decades in various constellations on many stages. I lived in New York for 10 years and studied there at the Mannes College of Music and NYU.

Thirteen years ago, I accepted a teaching position in my hometown of Jerusalem and began my journey as a teacher. Since then, I have taught hundreds of students, and have taken many of them along the route of becoming jazz musicians.
Today, they inspire others with their playing.

Let me do the same for you.

“The course opened worlds of knowledge,
music and ideas, as well as the ability to
improvise jazz, of course.

I was amazed by the amount of material
Yuval teaches in a few lessons and the
amount of knowledge he brings along.

Most important, Yuval is an exquisite teacher
and has a sense of humor. I enjoyed every minute and
I intend to register for the advanced course”.

Dr. Avi Bar Eitan, Faculty,
Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance

* Avi joined and completed the Advanced Course as well

Graduates of
Unveiling Jazz Improvisation
Say:

“An excellent course with fantastic teaching material. It enables flexible studying with the possibility to use every moment and study a-synchronously. I enjoyed Yuval's immense experience and his insights during the sessions.

Few are the teachers who have authority in a few musical genres, and it is a great advantage to receive a cross-genre perspective during the lessons”.

Shira Balter

* Shira joined and completed the Advanced Course as well

“I have played for many years and tried to learn Jazz from a few teachers, books, Youtube clips, etc., without much success.

Yuval's course opened many possibilities for me,
and for the first time I reached a state where I
understand harmonic progressions and can carry an improvisation.

Yuval knows how to explain complicated things in simple ways.
Moreover, he finds the right balance between being meticulous and getting the message across clearly.

This course is worth much more than
standard lessons I have taken for years”.

Jonathan Schwementhal

* Jonathan joined and completed the Advanced Course as well

“The name of the game in studying jazz is Demystification.
Turning the magic of improvisation into
something concrete that can be learned one step at a time.

This is Yuval's specialty,
both in the methodological sense and in listening to you and
knowing exactly what needs to be worked on”.

Offer Yehuda

Outline of the course

Introductory Bonus Lecture: The Elements of Jazz: Sound, Rhythm, Harmony, Improvisation, Repertoire

Part One: The Building Blocks of Tonal Melodies

Module 1: Basic Seventh chords – Shell Voicing – II-V-I Progressions – Accompanying Rhythmic Patterns – Improvising Using Chord Tones

Module 2: Learning Songs – Reading Charts – Bossa Nova Patterns – Improvising Using Lower Neighbors – Take the A Train – Black Orpheus

Module 3: Diatonic Descending Fifths Progressions – Improvising Using Upper Neighbors – Improvising Over the Bar Line (1) – Autumn Leaves

Module 4: “Dominant VI” chord (Augmented 6th) – Improvising Using Passing Tones and Double Neighbors – Combining All the Elements – Beautiful Love

Intermediate Module (no assignments): Using the tools to accompany other types of music

Part Two: Expanding The Vocabulary

Module 5: Half-time Stride (for pianists) – Harmonic Mixture – Using Fixed Shifted Rhythms – Using VIIo7 instead of V7 – Playing Over the Bar Line using Passing Tones (2) – What Is This Thing Called Love

Module 6: “Turn Around” Progressions – Applied Dominants – IV-IVm-I Progressions – Left Hand Rhythmic Placement – All Of Me

Module 7: Dominant Descending Fifths Progressions – Tritone Substitution – Passing Notes in Succession – There Is No Greater Love – Yesterdays

Intermediate Module (no assignments): Conventions during Jazz Performance

Part Three: Integration - From Words to Phrases

Module 8: 12-bar Blues – Connecting Foreign Chords – Devices to Enhance Melodies – Now’s The Time – Straight No Chaser – Blue Bossa

Module 9: Minor Blues – Suspended Chords – Using Guide Tones – “Back Door” Progression – Birk’s Works – Equinox – Pent Up House

Module 10: Improvising On Diminished Chords – Octatonic Scale – Motivic Development – All The Things You Are – Just Friends

Final Bonus Lecture: Walking Bass Principals; Harmonic Tensions Principals (9,13,11)

The full price of this course is $2100.

The price for this launch is $997.

Student Price is $697.

Risk-free Enrollment

In order to show my confidence in the method and the course,

I am also offering
Full Money Back Guarantee!
I have witnessed my method work time and again,
so I am happy to make a commitment:
If you follow through with all the exercises and
complete the course and it did not meet your expectations,
I will refund your entire payment.

The course starts on
Sunday Jan. 14, 2024
and includes:
· TWELVE Live Lectures
· TWELVE Group Coaching Sessions
· SIX Individual Lessons
· Written and Video material for you to keep

In Addition, you will get:
· TWO Bonus Lectures ($100 Value)
· SIX Additional Individual Lessons ($300 Value)
Register by Jan. 1, 2024, and receive also:
· Ongoing Feedback (insane value)

or simply

"Yuval is the best teacher for Harmony I know.
He builds with the student the ability to improvise over any harmonic progression in a systematic and organized way.
As opposed to many other teachers, Yuval teaches all the skills that are expected from an improvising player in every situation and not merely "style".
In addition, Yuval's world of references is rich and he can dive into a
Bill Evans' solo with the same seriousness he goes into Bach's fugues,
and he connects them all to the topics of the lesson."

Avinoam Etun, guitarist and composer.
M.Mus candidate, Jazz guitar, Mannes College, NYC

Private Students Say About Me:

"Yuval is unique among musicians for having the
sharpest ear one can hope for.
Having played for many dozens of eminent artists, I have hardly met anyone who so scrupulously and incisively pays attention to the smallest of details, and makes the relevance of these details clear.
He is the truest of musicians, and I wholeheartedly recommend his tuition."

Ariel Lanyi, concert pianist.
Prize winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition.
Finalist in the Rubinstein International competition.
Full Scholarship Graduate, M.Mus, B.Mus, Royal Academy of Music, London.

"Yuval is absolutely the best teacher I have worked with.
He is one of those teachers who sends you home with infinite work, and also teaches you how to become a good teacher of yourself.
I highly recommend Yuval for all levels and styles!"

Moshe Elmakias, jazz pianit, NYC.
M.Mus from New England Conservatory, Boston,
B. Mus from Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance.

"I came to Yuval thinking that I knew a thing or two about piano, and Yuval opened a whole new world for me.
A world of perceiving, of essence, technique, basics, theory, and what not. Yuval is one of the nicest and smartest people I have met, and as a teacher
he changed my entire view and deepened it immensely.
Highly recommended."

Noam Tsurieli, Pianist and Rap artist, Israel.

Some of My Playing