My 5-Week Jazz Language Immersion and my 5-Week Play What You Hear ear-training cohort. Both live with me. Both start Wednesday, June 24th.
Two separate 5-week cohorts, both live with me. Take either one for $697 — or take both for $994 and build the language and the ear at the same time.
These cohorts fix two different problems. One of these is probably the thing you keep bumping into right now. Some players have both. Read the two cards and you'll know which room is yours this round.
You've got scales, licks, and ii-V-I's under your fingers. But when the tune starts moving, your solos come out sounding like exercises instead of music.
Pick this if your problem is language — turning what you know into lines that actually swing.
You can hum the melody, you know how it should go — but you have to hunt for every note, look up the chords, or fake your way through the jam.
Pick this if your problem is the gap between your ear and your hands — hearing a song and just playing it.
Turn the scales, licks, and arpeggios you already know into real jazz lines — the five systems that move you from playing the changes to actually speaking the language. Stop learning ingredients and start learning the recipes.
Connect your ear to your hands so you can hear a song and just play it — no hunting, no charts, no faking it. Built from the same Exercise of Life method I've used to train the ear for twenty years. Any instrument. Any level.
Here's why most players stay stuck: they build one half and not the other. You can memorize every recipe and still freeze when it's your turn, because your ear can't hand the line to your fingers fast enough. Or you can hear everything and have nothing to say, because you never learned the vocabulary. Run both cohorts together and each one feeds the other — the language gives your ear something worth reaching for, and the ear lets you actually use the language in real time.
The jazz cohort builds what to say. The ear cohort builds the reflex to say it the instant you hear it — the two halves of sounding like a real player.
Both start June 24th and meet weekly, so the new language and the new ear skill are landing in the same songs in the same weeks — not months apart.
Same method, same feedback loop, same community. Nothing to reconcile between two approaches — it's one path taught by one person.
My cohorts stay small on purpose, the feedback comes from me and not an assistant, and I'm on every live call listening to your actual playing. I'm a jazz guitarist praised by The New York Times and DownBeat, and I've trained over a thousand guitarists in more than forty countries. These two cohorts are where I teach the two things I've watched hold players back for twenty years — and I'll be working with you on both, live.
“Within three months I was deep into improvisation and jazz — something I never expected to fall in love with. Studying with Rotem changed my life.”
“The first cohort became the fastest-selling cohort I've ever opened — small, live, and built around real feedback on your playing.”
Join either cohort — or both — show up to the first calls, work through the opening material, and send me a video of your playing. If after 14 days it isn't exactly what you needed, email me at rotem@rotemsivan.com for a full refund. No questions asked.
Go by the two cards near the top. If your solos sound like exercises even though you know the theory, start with the Jazz cohort. If you hear music in your head but your hands can't find it, start with Play What You Hear. If both ring true, that's exactly who the bundle is built for.
Yes — that's the point of the bundle. They meet on different live calls during the week, and the material is designed to reinforce itself: the language gives your ear something to reach for, and the ear lets you use the language in real time. Every call is recorded, so nothing is lost if a week gets busy.
No. Play What You Hear is built for any instrument and any level — guitar, bass, piano, voice. The skill is connecting your ear to your hands, and we build it from scratch together.
Every call is recorded and posted in the community, and you keep lifetime access. You can also send your playing for feedback between sessions, so you stay in the loop even on a week you miss.
Enrollment holds open until the first call on June 24th. Once the cohorts begin, the live rooms are full and the next round won't be for a while.
You have 14 days. Sit in the first calls, do the opening work, and if it isn't what you needed, email me for a full refund — no questions asked.
The rooms are small and enrollment closes once we begin. Pick the room that's yours — or take both and work the language and the ear together.
Here's the short version — a small room, real feedback, and me on every call. For twenty years I've watched the same two things hold players back: not enough language, or an ear that can't reach the hands. These two cohorts fix exactly those two things, live, with my eyes and ears on your playing. If you already know this is the work you keep circling back to, I wouldn't treat June 24th as something to come back to later.
P.S. — Either cohort is $697. The bundle gets you both for $994 — less than the price of the two separately, and the only way to build the language and the ear in the same five weeks. Both start June 24th and seats are capped. Pick your path and I'll see you on the first call.
P.P.S. — Not sure which one fits? Email me at rotem@rotemsivan.com and tell me where you're stuck. I'll point you to the right room within 24 hours.