UNVEILING JAZZ IMPROVISATION

Understand how jazz works and
start improvising in your own voice

Twelve-Week Live Online Course

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Do you sometimes feel that...

  • You want to play jazz and don’t know where to begin.

  • Wherever you look, the amount of information feels overwhelming.

  • You find tips in videos, but don’t have a structured method.

  • You improvise, but your lines do not sound like melodies.

  • You come up with melodies, but they do not sound like jazz.

  • You play jazz, but struggle to develop your ideas into a solo.

Jazz improvisation opens up once
you understand how the music works.

You will begin by using simple musical principles to create melodic building blocks, shape them into clear musical ideas, and develop them into phrases.

Throughout the course, you will explore key concepts through carefully selected jazz standards and apply them in focused improvisation exercises. As you progress, you will integrate these elements and gain control over rhythm, harmony, melody, and style.

By the end of the course, you will be able to improvise over a wide range of jazz standards. Instead of searching for what to play, you will improvise freely in your own voice.

Your are ready for Unveiling Jazz Improvisation if:

  • You feel comfortable on your instrument

  • You read music

  • You are familiar with basic harmony

  • You want to learn how to play jazz

My name is Yuval Cohen, and I invite you to join my live online course and begin unveiling your musical creativity.

I will personally guide you throughout the process, offering continuous feedback and support so you always know what to do next.

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What Makes Unveiling Jazz Improvisation Different?

  1. The course meets students where they are, even if they have no prior experience in improvisation.

  2. The learning process begins with simple choices that gradually lead to improvisation, guided by clear musical principles rather than by scales and licks.

  3. Each step follows naturally from the previous one, creating a clear and structured path.

  4. Sound, rhythm, harmony, and melody are worked on in parallel throughout the course.

  5. All concepts are introduced through jazz standards, practiced through focused exercises, and applied directly in improvisation.

  6. Each exercise focuses on a specific musical element and integrates it directly into your playing.

  7. Students learn essential principles of jazz aesthetics that shape stylistically informed and creative playing.

  8. Throughout the course, students develop personal expression by making their own musical choices and shaping their musical taste.

  9. The entire process is guided, with continuous feedback and personal support throughout the course.

Unveiling Jazz Improvisation is Live Online And Includes:

Twelve Live Lectures

The live lectures are at the heart of the course. This is where I present the core concepts of the course step by step through written material and musical examples. I introduce the weekly assignments, offer practice strategies, and address common pitfalls. I encourage students to ask questions throughout.

Live lectures are 1 hour long.

In addition, students receive:

Twelve Group Coaching Sessions

Group coaching sessions are an essential part of the course. Each student has the opportunity to play through the assignments and receive personal feedback from me. I offer further guidance and practice suggestions as needed, helping students stay on track, deepen their understanding, and prepare for the next lecture.

Group coaching sessions are 1-2 hours long

Six Mentoring Sessions

The mentoring sessions are personal meetings scheduled at the student’s request. They provide space for individual guidance and allow me to address specific areas in greater depth.

Mentoring Sessions are 15 minutes long

Over 100 Pages of Written Material and Video Clips

Each week, I provide students with written materials, sheet music, assignments, and video demonstrations to support their learning. Recordings of the live lectures are uploaded after each session, allowing students to review the material and catch up when needed.

All documents and recordings remain available after the course ends.

Special Bonus:
Eight Prerecorded Bonus Lectures

These eight prerecorded lectures provide essential foundations for the course, along with broader topics that deepen students’ understanding of jazz improvisation.

Each prerecorded lecture is approximately 1 hour long.

Early Registration Bonus:
Six Additional Mentoring Sessions

Six additional mentoring sessions bring the total to twelve, allowing for weekly personal guidance throughout the course.

Mentoring sessions are 15 minutes long.

First Six Students Bonus:
Ongoing Feedback

Be one of the first six to register and receive my ongoing feedback throughout the course. You will be invited to send me unlimited recordings of yourself playing through the assignments, and in most cases you will receive my feedback within one hour.
This helps you stay on track, make better use of your practice time, and continue refining your playing throughout the course.

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About Me And My Teaching

I started playing the piano at the age of 4 and studied classical music, while also playing songs by ear. In my teenage years, I was drawn to jazz, and by the age of 20, I led my first professional trio. I have been performing ever since.
I spent 10 years living in New York, where I studied at Mannes College, Purchase College, and NYU. During that time, I performed in both classical and jazz settings, and also worked as a musical director and arranger.
In 2009, I was invited to return to my hometown of Jerusalem to establish and lead a jazz department. Since then, I have guided hundreds of students, helping them deepen their understanding of the music and express themselves more freely.

Listen to my playing

About Unveiling Jazz Improvisation

During the pandemic lockdowns, I dedicated many hours to refining the teaching methods and concepts I had developed over years of experience. I brought these ideas together into a clear and structured course: Unveiling Jazz Improvisation, which reflects my personal approach to teaching jazz improvisation.
I built the course as a guided learning process, where the material is presented clearly and at a thoughtful pace. I teach the core content in the live lectures, and provide guidance and support through the group coaching and mentoring sessions.
Since the course was first launched in 2021, I have continued to refine and expand it, adding prerecorded lectures and developing an advanced course for graduates. I have taught the course multiple times, and it has been deeply rewarding to see students gain freedom, confidence, and a personal voice in jazz improvisation.

“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; Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Bar-Ilan University, Israel

* Avi joined and completed the Advanced Course as well

What Graduates of Unveiling Jazz Improvisation
Say About the Course:

“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”.

Ofer Yehuda

"Yuval is a brilliant pianist and musician, and also a gifted educator with rare pedagogical insight.
A professional pianist and teacher myself, I took his course and was deeply impressed by the way he builds a
solid foundation of rhythm, sound, style, structure, harmony, and ear training.
Yuval presents each concept in an extremely clear, constructive and accessible way, which
leads the students to grasp jazz improvisation, regardless of their starting point.
The course is thoughtfully designed, well-paced, and includes superb effective exercises and handouts that are practical across various skill levels.
I often find myself using Yuval's methods in my own teaching."

Renana Gutman, concert pianist.
Faculty, Longy School Of Music, Boston MA

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Outline of the course

  • * Introductory Lecture: The Elements of Jazz, Course Structure, Rhythm Basics, Seventh chords

Part One: Building Blocks

Module 1: 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: Musical Phrasing

Module 5: “Turn Around” Progressions – Applied Dominants – IV-IVm-I Progressions – Left Hand Rhythmic Placement – Half-time Stride (for pianists) – All Of Me

Module 6: Harmonic Mixture – Using Fixed Shifted Rhythms – Using VIIo7 instead of V7 – Playing Over the Bar Line using Passing Tones (2) – 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: Integrating Concepts

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 Principles; Harmonic Tensions Principals (9,13,11)

* TWELVE Live Lectures
* TWELVE Group Coaching Sessions
* SIX Mentoring Sessions
* Over 100 Pages of Written Material
* Video Demonstrations

Bonus Package Includes:
* EIGHT Bonus Prerecorded Lectures ($320 Value)
* SIX Additional Mentoring Sessions ($450 Value)
Special Bonus (First SIX to Enroll):
* Ongoing Feedback - send me recordings anytime ($1200+ Value)

Total Value of Course + Bonuses: $2,540.

Course Regular Price is $997.

EARLY BIRD price: $697*

UNVEILING JAZZ IMPROVISATION
Spring 2026

Due to the hands-on nature of course,
enrollment is LIMITED to SIXTEEN PARTICIPANTS

The lectures usually take place on Wednesdays 2pm EST.
Final time may change according to participants availability

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Unveilng Jazz Improvisation BASIC

* TWELVE Live Lectures
* Over 100 Pages of Written Material
* Video Demonstrations

Bonus Package Includes (Register by June 7)
* EIGHT Pre-recorded Lectures

Total Value: $1080
Regular Price: $697
Early Bird Price: $497

Additional ways to Join Unveiling Jazz Improvisation

Unveilng Jazz Improvisation INTENSIVE

* TWELVE Live Lectures
* TWELVE Group Coaching Sessions
* TWELVE Mentoring Sessions
* Over 100 Pages of Written Material
* Video Demonstrations
* TWELVE Personal Practice Sessions (30 mins)
* EIGHT Pre-recorded Lectures
* ONGOING Feedback - Unlimited WhatsApp Support

Total Value: $3,380
Regular Price: $2497
Early Bird Price: $1497

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Risk-Free Enrollment

I stand behind this course and the method behind it, which is why I offer a full money-back guarantee.

If you complete all the exercises and feel that the course did not give you the progress you expected, I will refund your full payment.

"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

Private Students Say About My Teaching

"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 pianist.
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.

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Understand how jazz works and
start improvising in your own voice

Enroll Now

Twelve-Week Live Online Course

UNVEILING JAZZ IMPROVISATION