Long & McQuade Learning Series - London South, ON

Wednesday, March 11 | 7:00pm

Improvise! Free-Play Creativity in Music-Making
With MJ Idzerda

In this clinic, keyboardist MJ Idzerda will guide you through interactive, free‑play techniques you can apply to all instruments. Explore creative and spontaneous music‑making, discover ways to express yourself freely, and learn how to unlock new ideas that will inspire and expand your musical journey. Musicians of all skill levels are welcome!          

Beginning with piano lessons in his formative years, MJ Idzerda taught himself to play by ear and gravitated to electronic music. Playing keyboards in various Toronto bands, he honed his live performance skills and invented ways to jam spontaneously. After careers as a Yamaha keyboard demonstrator, and pipe-organ and piano technician, he became a regular guest performer with London’s Free Music Unit and The Art of Streaming at Studio 105. MJ continues to explore the world of intimate musical connection and free-play and extemporaneous composition.

 

Tuesday, March 31 | 6:30pm

Ear Training, Sight Reading, Transcribing and Music Theory Tips and Techniques
With Tony Nesbitt-Larking                     

Have you ever wanted to accurately ‘play back’ or ‘sing back’ melodies, chord progressions, rhythms, or full songs quickly that you are listening to or reading off of the page?

• Do you want to improve your ‘playing from memory’, and ‘playing by-ear’ chops?
• Would you like to develop your music charting/transcribing skills, so you can write down what you hear? 
• Would you like to sharpen your ear-training abilities to accurately and quickly identify pitches, intervals, scales, chords, rhythms, melodies, harmonies, and chord progressions?

If so, this clinic is for you!

Tony Nesbitt-Larking is a Juno-nominated session drummer, guitarist, educator and composer, based out of London, Ontario. He has been playing professionally in the music industry for over 25 years, and has done extensive live/studio work and touring.

 

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