We recently reminisced about the amazing time we had teaching you last summer and decided to bring back a one-time-only virtual workshop day on Saturday, August 14! We are excited to be back together (in person) for this special occasion! 

We’ll be walking you through each technique step by step, giving you exercises you can practice at home and answering your questions live. We’ll also leave you with a PDF workbook, a private curated playlist, and a special surprise that will be emailed to you after our session. 

There will be a live Q&A for each topic in the curriculum, and we will spend time answering your questions regarding each topic!

All ticket holders are invited to an end-of-the-day Q&A and virtual jam session as well!

<3 Grace + Leo

1 pm-2:30 pm ET - Starting Your Career Through Performing (All Levels)

We’re kicking the day off with a 2SAXY “Starting Your Career Through Performing” workshop. This is for all levels. 

Busking (20 min)

Leo P will take you through the story of his early days of hitting the streets and building his career through busking. He’ll discuss busking benefits, and where to start, best practices for building your setlist, and how to promote yourself.

Social Media (30 min)

We’ll be teaching you how to work towards finding a unique voice on social media and how to build your audience through the power of collaboration. We’ll be discussing ways you can use social media as a vehicle for creating your next project/web series, and strategies for posting to multiple platforms. We’ll be showing you video clips of past content we’ve created and walking you through our process of creating it and releasing the content.

Networking (15 min)

We’ll be discussing how to get leads for gigs using networking and best practices for reaching out to other creatives and creating new opportunities.

Q&A (10 min) Ask us Anything

We’ll use this time to go over any questions you may have!

2:45 pm-3:45 pm ET -Articulation & Speed with Leo P (ALL LEVELS)

Leo will guide you through how to get your tongue and fingers to be in true synchronicity as you learn to build speed while articulating. He’ll be teaching you how to create more interesting rhythmic lines using articulation. Get ready for Leo to unleash some brand new articulation exercises and techniques that you have never seen before!

4:00 pm-5:00 pm ET - Bebop Vocabulary and Transposition (Intermediate/Advanced)

In this session, Grace will lead you through exercises to expand your bebop vocabulary and take you through her process of integrating bebop melody lines into your own improvisation by way of specific transposition techniques.

Bebop Repertoire (15 min) 

This segment will be a mix of listening and play-along - we’ll be diving into a couple of great bebop melodies that we’ll use as our main muse throughout the workshop. 

Analyzing Lines (15 min) 

In this segment, we’ll handpick certain lines from the above bebop melodies and analyze them together, learning how the notes and chords work together and what makes them cohesive bebop lines. 

Transposition Techniques & Q&A (30 min)

Grace will take you through her process for integrating short bebop riffs into your own improv using transposition techniques in this last segment. Get ready to do a bunch of playing during this segment as she leads you through real-time exercises. 

5 pm-6 pm ET - Q&A & Virtual Jam Session

To end workshop day we are inviting all attendees to join for a Q&A and virtual jam session! We will use this time to answer any remaining questions and hold a guided jam session where we will lead you through some tracks and grooves.