NEW David Bloom Music Mentorship Course
Being a world class musician starts with professional mentoring by David Bloom.
For five decades, David Bloom, award-winning educator and Founder and Director of the Bloom School of Jazz, has trained intermediate through professional musicians, including Grammy winners. He teaches students in downtown Chicago, or online anywhere in the world.
“Your music will never sound better unless you change the way you think about it, and how you hear it. If you don’t change your approach, you are doomed to sound the way you’ve always sounded.” - David Bloom
Bloom understands the language of music, how it works, and introduces this deep knowledge to any instrumentalist from any genre who is willing to dive deep. He draws on decades of experience, and offers musicians advice on technical and aesthetic questions, transforming mediocrity into mastery. Whether you are just getting started, or have extensive education and professional experience, you will not find Bloom’s highly innovative teaching methods anywhere else.
“You will begin telling dramatic musical stories when you apply my Master Improvisation Tools to your music. In my Mentorship Courses, I see students use these tools to make progress in a few months that would normally take them years…or never.”
The 7-week Music Mentorship Course includes full access to David Bloom as your musical mentor. Your one-hour class per week is just part of your ongoing dialogue with Bloom. Call and email Bloom with questions and completed assignments throughout the week, and receive invaluable critical feedback and life-changing musical wisdom.
Honor your musical values. Discover and use a full range of sentiments, sensibilities, and aesthetics. Learn to be a master musical storyteller, hearing and playing music in a profoundly different way.
Use what you already know in different, more musical ways. Learn to utilize rhythmic variety, rests, dynamics, articulation, and motivic development, to link ideas through chords and create a dramatic arc in your solo. Now it isn't notes, it is a compelling musical story.
Push your limits of expression. Bloom teaches advanced concepts, such as polychords, polymetric phrasing, and a variety of tune structures, so you can color your music in ways that are specific to your emotional message. The course includes a recording session where you can test your musical skills in the studio.
Go to the Mountain Top: Work with Bloom toward any musical dream you can imagine. Explore comping, soloing, building your repertoire with songs that love you, composing, arranging, developing a perfect set for live shows or recording, producing your next album, and more.
Fix Problems: This course is the perfect place to refine your solos so you sound like yourself, and work out any issues that are holding you back. The psychological and individual approach to playing music will be successfully addressed.
Prerequisites: Not only must you be at an intermediate level on comping and soloing, expressing yourself through music must be deeply important to you. Bloom’s alumni includes Grammy winners–so there is no ceiling on how talented or accomplished you are before you can begin. In addition to class time, you must be ready to commit at least 7 hours per week to perfecting (not just practicing) assigned material, sending in completed assignments and recordings, and maintaining a dialogue with Bloom on your progress and challenges.
Included in the Course:
- (7) 1-hour private classes, held once per week at a scheduled time, in person at the Bloom School of Jazz, 226 S. Wabash, 7th Floor, Chicago, IL or on Zoom.
- A recording session at a professional studio is held the end of the term (2 hours). If you cannot make the recording session, you can take an additional class within the 7 weeks. You receive the recording as a documentation of your progress.
- Access to Bloom by phone and email throughout the course to ask questions and received personalized guidance. Send assignments and recordings as completed, and questions, to Bloom during the week, and receive ongoing feedback.
Cost: Tuition is $1500, to be paid in full before the start of the term. Some scholarships are available based on financial need or profound musical potential.
This course is the ONLY course now available at Bloom School of Jazz for private study (in addition to group classes). Don't miss your chance to be mentored by David Bloom and hear your music soar to new heights.
To register, or for a 15-minute entrance interview, call (773) 860-8300 or email dbloomjazz@gmail.com.