About

At Sharp Eleven Music, we’re dedicated to providing you no-nonsense, practical and most of all accurate music education.

There is a lot of overwhelm and a lot of confusion in music education and we want to give you clarity.

We do this through a 2-step approach:

Transcription
Musicology

Transcriptions allow us to get as close as we can to the thinking of the masters of the past and present.

Musicology in the form of historic research provides us with accurate knowledge and helps us untangle the complex history and development of music to where it is today.

It also provides an answer to the question “why don’t I sound like ‘artist X’ even though I’ve been practicing everything I ‘should’ be practicing.

It's no news flash that we get bombarded by information.
In the classroom, on our way to work, in everyday life and especially on the internet.

Information, methods and opinions on music and music theory are no different.

By this point we’ve received an amalgamation of all of the theories that ever existed, mixed together with some half truths and misunderstandings.

Knowing how, when and why the different systems emerged will help us to declutter all of the information.

This in turn will give us clarity and we will be able to choose the right tool for the right job.

Who We Are

Jorre Reynders

After finishing his Master studies in Jazz saxophone at the Conservatory of Maastricht, Jorre decided to publish his transcriptions to the rest of the world through Youtube, naming it after how he named all his musical projects: "Sharp Eleven Music". Driven since teenage years by the awesomeness of a saxophone sound and soloing in particular, it has lead to an endless stream of motivation to dig deeper into everything saxophonist (and by extension other instruments) have to offer in improvised music, uncovering it to the world simultanously. Publishing consistently a transcription ever two weeks since 2016 plus practicing and analyzing it has lead to a much deeper unstanding of everything saxophone, improvisation and music in general. This is now applied in the teaching courses and his own musical explorations.

Jorre is as a saxophonist active in the international acclaimed latin band Mambisimo Big Band, The Jack Million Big Band, his own Fusion project consisting of original material named the Sharp Eleven Electric Band with an album "Donkey Dance" released in 2020, several independ productions under Sharp Eleven Music like the Charlie Parker 1942 version of "Cherokee" for 5-part sax soli amongst others, and active as a working musician in Belgium and the rest of Europe. He also founded an indoor soccer (Futsal) club called FC Sharp Eleven, keeping physically poor musicians off the streets. They lose all their games.

Watch a tutorial by Jorre here

Timothy Pedone

Just like Jorre, Timothy finished his Master studies in jazz guitar at the Conservatory of Maastricht. After that he went back to his first love, composition and developed a solo project, called Introvert. Not much time went by before he founded a music production company together with Jorre in 2016, called Edge Effect. Of course, studying guitar never stopped and transcribing became an increasingly bigger part of that. Fast forward to today and we have over 150 guitar transcriptions and lots of insights gained.

Additionally Timothy is currently studying conducting at the conservatory of Leuven, he's assisting composers with orchestrations and engraving and every two weeks or so he goes and loses a game of indoor soccer.