The Inner Circle Gives You Everything You Need To Learn Jazz. IC Plus Makes Sure You Actually Do.
What if this month's jazz standard study came with a coach? Someone who walks you through the melody, trains your ear on the chords, hands you something to improvise, and tells you how you're actually doing? That's Inner Circle Plus.
IC Plus Starts September 2026 — Secure Your Spot and Founding Member Bonuses
The Inner Circle hands you the ingredients. IC Plus makes the meal with you.
Right now, every month, you receive everything you need to learn a jazz standard on your own. The chord analysis. The mapping exercises. The etude. The backing tracks. Everything.
And then you sit down with it.
Maybe that moment feels exciting. You work through the melody, piece by piece, figure out the chord changes, and slowly — slowly — the song starts to take shape. You get there. It takes longer than you want and costs more effort than it should, but you get there. And some part of you wonders: did this really have to feel so hard?
Or maybe that moment feels different. You open the resources and something tightens in your chest. Where do I start? You try the melody and it feels like guessing. You look at the chord chart and the symbols stare back at you. You tell yourself you will come back to it later. Later becomes next week. Next week becomes the end of the month. And the standard you were supposed to learn sits there, unfinished, like a quiet reminder of the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
Most jazz musicians know one of these two feelings very well. Some know both.
What they share is this: they are doing it alone. And learning jazz alone — whether you are getting through it or getting stuck — is harder, slower, and lonelier than it needs to be.
IC Plus exists to change that. For both of them.
Every Month. One Standard. Four Coaching Sessions. Done Together.
Every month the same standard you are studying in the Inner Circle becomes the foundation for four live group coaching calls — each one covering a specific step of the learning process, in sequence, with a coach guiding you through it.
By the end of the month you will not have just studied the standard.
You will know it.
Glenn · Guitar
Sue · Saxophone
Dan · Piano
Every week, the same standard you're studying — taught live, then yours on replay.
Learn the Melody By Ear
You could spend hours hunting for the right notes, stopping and starting, hoping it eventually clicks. Or you could sit down with a coach who shows you exactly how — phrase by phrase, from the very first note.
Your coach walks the group through this month's standard until you can hear it, sing it, and feel its shape — and leaves you with a precise practice roadmap. No more staring at a lead sheet wondering where to start.
Hear the Chord Changes
You could read the chord symbols and hope they eventually make sense. Or you could have someone train your ear to actually hear them.
Your coach walks the group through the harmonic movement of the standard until the changes stop being symbols on a page and start being something you feel. By the end of this call the song lives in your ear — not just on paper.
One Improvisation Concept, Applied Right Now
You could experiment with what to play over the changes and hope something works. Or you could have a coach hand you a specific tool.
One improvisation concept demonstrated directly over the standard you now know melodically and harmonically. Not a theory lecture. Something specific and usable, ready to take straight to your practice session.
Play for Brent. Get Real Feedback.
You could practice in a vacuum and wonder if you are actually improving. Or you could have someone listen and tell you exactly what to work on next.
Submit a short recording before the call. Brent reviews submissions live with the group. Whether your recording gets reviewed or you watch someone else's — you will learn just as much either way — and walk away with something specific to fix this month.
Four weeks. Four group coaching sessions. One standard learned the way it was meant to be learned — with someone showing you every step.
Between Calls, Coaching Is Still There.
The IC Plus coaching chat is where the work between calls gets supported. Post a question. Share something you are stuck on. Ask for clarity on what you just practiced. A real jazz coach — not a chatbot, not a forum — responds within 48 hours.
Because getting stuck does not have to mean staying stuck until next week.
You Won't Learn Alone. You'll Learn Together.
Every IC Plus call is attended by all IC Plus members — and that's the point, not a compromise. When you watch Brent give feedback on someone else's playing, you hear your own questions answered before you knew to ask them. You see your own mistakes corrected in real time. A private coach can only respond to what you bring; a room full of musicians shows you what you didn't even know to bring.
And that room is wide open. IC Plus members play more than ten different instruments — the concepts that make you a better improviser are the same whether you're on saxophone or piano, so you'll learn just as much from a trumpet player's question as your own.
…and that's just the start. Whatever you play, there's a seat for you in the room.
You Don't Have to Show Up Live. The Replay Is Where the Real Work Happens.
We designed IC Plus with the intention that most members can't always show up live and will watch the replays. The call creates the coaching. The replay is where you use it — pausing when something clicks, rewinding the melody walkthrough until you have it, watching the feedback session with your instrument in your hands.
IC Plus is designed to be just as valuable at 11pm on a Sunday as it is live on a Tuesday afternoon.
Worried you will fall behind on a live call? The melody call does not expect you to have it memorized by the end of the hour. It gives you a guided introduction and a precise practice roadmap. Then you take the replay, go at your own pace, and return to any section as many times as you need. The call does the teaching. Your practice sessions do the learning.
What Every IC Plus Member Gets
- Four live monthly group coaching calls, with replays — melody by ear, chords by ear, one improvisation concept, and live feedback from Brent — all built around the standard you are already studying in the Inner Circle.$400/month value
- The IC Plus coaching chat — a real jazz coach responds within 48 hours, every day of the month. Not a forum. Not a chatbot. A real coach.$100/month value
- Full Inner Circle membership included — if you are already a member, you will not be charged twice. Everything you already have, plus the coaching layer on top.$39/month value
- Replay access for every call — posted within 24 hours so time zones and schedules never get in the way.
- Founding member rate lock — $147/month (or $1,470/year), guaranteed for life. When the price goes up for new members, yours stays the same. Always.
Go Annual and We Stack Three Bonuses On Top.
Everything in IC Plus — plus three exclusive bonuses you can't get any other way, designed to make a full year impossible to pass up.
You don't have to wait until the program is in full swing to feel the difference. As a founding member you get an extra live group coaching call scheduled this month — where Brent reviews your playing and tells you exactly what to work on next. Just like the Week 4 calls, you'll submit a short video of your playing ahead of time, then Brent reviews submissions live with the group. It's the same direct, play-for-Brent feedback that anchors every month in IC Plus, brought right to the front so you start getting real coaching the moment you join — and walk away with something specific to fix from day one.
Five private audio episodes recorded exclusively for IC Plus founding members. Never released publicly. Not available for purchase. Not going on the podcast. These are the things I would tell you if you were sitting across from me — my most direct, unfiltered thinking about what actually moves the needle in jazz, what most students get wrong, and what I would do differently if I were starting over. New episodes unlock weekly over your first five weeks.
What is inside? You will have to listen to find out.
A physical copy of the Jazz Standards Playbook shipped directly to your home. We've never sold a print edition — it has only ever existed as a digital download. This is the first time it's been put in print, made exclusively for founding members. The ten standards every jazz musician needs to know — yours to keep on your music stand for the rest of your playing life. Because some things belong in your hands, not on a screen.
Is $147 a Month Worth It? Let's Put It in Perspective.
What one private lesson with a good jazz teacher costs. That's one hour, one week, one opinion — and then you're on your own.
A single semester of jazz courses at Berklee Online. A full music degree can run $30,000 to $100,000 or more.
IC Plus is $147 a month.
For that you get four live monthly group coaching sessions, a dedicated coaching chat with a 48-hour response guarantee, direct feedback on your playing from Brent every month, and full Inner Circle membership included.
That works out to under $37 a coaching session — and the coaching chat, monthly feedback, and replays all come with it.
For about $5 a day, you stop figuring it out alone.Two Ways to Join. One Rate That Never Goes Up.
Inner Circle Plus officially begins September 2026. Sign up today to secure your founding member spot, lock in this rate for life, and claim the limited-time founding member bonuses before they're gone.
Cancel anytime, or switch back to the regular Inner Circle whenever you like.
- ✓ Four monthly coaching calls
- ✓ IC Plus coaching chat (48hr response)
- ✓ Full Inner Circle membership included
- ✓ Replay access within 24 hours
- ✓ Founding member rate locked for life
All three annual bonuses included. Cancel anytime, or switch back to the regular Inner Circle whenever you like.
- ✓ Four monthly coaching calls
- ✓ IC Plus coaching chat (48hr response)
- ✓ Full Inner Circle membership included
- ✓ Replay access within 24 hours
- ✓ Founding member rate locked for life
- ★Bonus 1: Head-start coaching call with Brent
- ★Bonus 2: The Vault — Private audio series from Brent
- ★Bonus 3: Jazz Standards Playbook mailed to you
Already a Lifetime Member? A special discount applies to you.
$539/month of coaching for $147 — about $5 a day to stop figuring it out alone.
Signing up now reserves your Founding Member spot. Your membership becomes Inner Circle Plus in September 2026, when your regular billing begins — and if you're already an Inner Circle member, we make sure you're never charged twice or renewed early. · Rate locked for life. · 50 spots only, first come first served. · Questions? Contact us.
IC Plus is built for a specific kind of musician.
- ✓You joined the Inner Circle ready to improve — but somewhere along the way the monthly standard started feeling like something you couldn't quite get a handle on. You want someone to walk you through it properly, not just hand you the resources.
- ✓You have been working through the standards on your own and want to make it faster, better, and a lot less solitary — with a coach in your corner at every step.
- ✓You are ready to stop studying jazz by yourself and start doing it with real coaching behind you.
- →You are completely content with going it alone and don't feel you need additional guidance or support.
- →You are looking for a private one-on-one coaching program built exclusively around your playing. That is something we offer separately.
- →You genuinely cannot commit to engaging with at least one call or the coaching chat most months.
Everything You Need to Know.
Imagine a Year From Now, With a Coach in Your Corner the Whole Way.
Picture twelve standards you truly know — not half-learned and set aside, but melody, changes, and improvisation, all the way through. Picture sitting down each month knowing exactly where to start, with someone walking you through every step and telling you how you're really sounding.
That's what this kind of access does. You already have the Inner Circle and everything you need to learn. IC Plus puts a coach beside you to help you actually build on it — and a whole room of musicians learning right alongside you. The musicians who grow the fastest aren't the most talented or the ones with the most time; they're the ones who stopped going it alone.
Fifty founding member spots. $147 a month. Rate locked forever.
This is your seat in the room. Come take it.