Your playing. Our repertoire. Your stage.

Teaching is rewarding work – but if you studied music, there's one thing you really want to do: play. At Urban Resonance you get regular evenings, several times a week, paid and reliably planned. You gain stage experience instead of only passing it on, and your playing grows with every evening.

Original pieces in the language of jazz

The Urban Resonance repertoire is made up of original compositions by Giotto Roussies. They are written in the language of jazz, with the forms, harmony and feel you know from the tradition of the standards. Each piece is a work in its own right, with its own melody and character. You'll find your way in quickly and still discover something new every evening.

Any key, every evening

In LiveLog the pieces are fully written out, and you can transpose any of them at the push of a button. Play it in F today, in A flat tomorrow and in E next week. What feels like a chore in the practice room happens naturally here – with an audience and real pressure.

Learn while you play

Especially if you're a student, this is more than a side job:

• You play in front of an audience regularly, on fixed evenings.
• You build up a large repertoire.
• You train transposition, sight-reading and improvisation in real situations.
• In LiveLog you can see what you play, how often, and how your repertoire grows.

Never boring

More than 200 pieces, with new ones added all the time. A different running order every evening, in any key you like. No two evenings are the same.

Every piece is an original composition by Giotto Roussies – and together they cover every style. No evening gets monotonous, and every piece helps you grow as a player.

For the evening

• Poetic piano pieces – playful, melancholic, cinematic. Music that makes guests look up.
• Classically inspired pieces – with clear voice leading and a romantic sound.
• Bossa nova and Latin – light and rhythmic, perfect for the early evening.
• Swing in the traditional style – for when the place is full.
• Blues and boogie-woogie – earthy, groovy and full of energy.
• Jazz ballads and more complex jazz pieces – for evenings when people are really listening.
• New melodies over classic jazz harmony – chord progressions you know from jazz, with newly composed melodies of their own. You know the way, yet you're playing something new.

For learning: the miniature series

Short pieces with a clear learning goal – ideal for practising and as short pieces in between during a set:

• Jazz Fragments – riffs and phrases from the jazz language, to absorb and take further.
• Tone Poems – classical miniatures, short and expressive.
• Chord Impressions – written-out voicings over beautiful chord progressions, from the sound of a jazz ballad to classical voice leading.
• Impro Progressions – short, poppy pieces with catchy melodies, made for improvising.

No need to fear the sheet music

Many great bar pianists don't learn from the page but by ear. That works just as well at Urban Resonance.

Example recordings in LiveLog

LiveLog has recordings of the pieces ready for you. Listen as often as you like – pause, skip back, repeat. That way you pick up a piece's melody, harmony and character simply by listening.

Sheet music as support, not a must

The sheet music is there when you need it – to check a chord or to work out a tricky passage. But you can learn the whole repertoire by ear and play freely.

At your own pace

You don't have to know everything at once. Start with a few pieces you've listened to carefully and add new ones step by step.