Chris Haigh - Playing the Blues on Violin | MusicGurus

Exploring Jazz Violin part 1: https://bit.ly/2Ncy9ho 🎻

Chris Haigh is a pro violinist based in the UK. He's played with the likes of Alison Moyet, Bob Geldof and Morcheeba. He's also a world-renowned fiddle expert and educator.

This course is based on the first part of his best-selling book Exploring Jazz Violin, and will get you playing jazz and improvising on violin in no time.
In this course Chris starts out showing you very easy ways to improvise, which he's perfected over years of teaching and workshops with classical and folk players who break out into a sweat at the mere thought of improvisation!
Throughout the course, Chris will use several jazz melodies to demonstrate particular ideas and the course comes with backing tracks so you can play along and try your own ideas and improvisation.

In This Course:
- Swing bowing
- Different types of scales and finger patterns
- Playing a head or melody
-Varying and developing a melody
- Using riffs or licks
- Using major pentatonic and blues scales
- Learning the styles of jazz violin greats such as Stephane Grappelli, Joe Venutti, Stuff Smith and Jean-Luc Ponty

More About MusicGurus:
All Chris Haigh courses: https://bit.ly/3pJOzNF
"Improvise on the String Instrument": https://bit.ly/3pL8lIG


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