Petr Šporcl

Jakub Šefl,

trumpeter, educator, improviser.

Jakub Šefl will teach trumpet at I-AME 2025 and will also lead an improvisation seminar, open to all participants regardless of instrument or level of experience. You can register for individual lessons via the I-AME application form; registration for improvisation lessons will be available on-site during free time.

Are you curious about improvisation but don’t know how to start?
Would you like to overcome your fear of improvising?
Do you already improvise a little but don’t know how to move forward?

Then this seminar is just right for you.

You can use improvisation in jazz, blues, folk, rock, classical music – or completely freely, without limits. Each style has its own rules and approaches, and you’ll get to know them during the sessions.

What you need:
– any musical instrument
– basic technical skills
– a desire to create, experiment, enjoy, and play with music

What you’ll gain:
– new ideas and motivation
– shared musical experiences
– a universal musical language

Age and number of participants: unlimited

Seminar Topics:

  • What is improvisation

  • Free improvisation and its various forms

  • Blues: history, call and response, blue tones, blues scale

  • 12-bar blues and its basic harmonic form; use of the blues scale and options for transposition

  • Chords and chord symbols; tone selection in solos, the concept and purpose of a guideline

  • Pentatonics, scales, Ionian system

  • More complex scales: diminished, whole-tone, altered, augmented

  • Licks – what they are, how to create and use them

  • Transcribing and learning solos, the importance of active listening

  • Improvisation workshops and inspiring musical activities

About the Instructor:

Jakub Šefl is a trumpeter and educator who focuses on jazz, classical, and folk music. He began improvising already as a student at the B. Smetana Elementary Art School in Plzeň. He studied trumpet at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in Prague (2004–2010) under Professor Zdeněk Zahálka. He later completed his studies at the same school’s Higher Professional Program (2014–2018), under Professors František Tomšíček, Štěpánka Balcarová, and Miroslav Hloucal.

Since 2010, he has been teaching trumpet and recorder at the Jesenice Elementary Art School, and since 2021 also at the Pštrossova Elementary Art School in central Prague. He is an active member of the bands Mariachi Azteca de Praga and Hot Wings.

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