Minor Pentatonic - Improvisation
With
Chris HaighChris Haigh improvises over a backing track on the G minor pentatonic, working up and down the positions - watch and play along with the interactive notation.
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Lesson transcript
Improvisation on G Minor Pentatonic
To finish off, I'm going to improvise on the G minor pentatonic using the backing.
Approach:
- I'll go up and down the positions
- This will be done in the way we just demonstrated.
Enjoy the music!
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Meet your guru
Chris Haigh has been a professional fiddle player for 25 years, with experience covering many different genres. He has played on over 75 albums, working with artists including Alison Moyet, Bob Geldof, All About Eve, Michael Ball, David Soul, Oumou Sangare, The Quireboys, Riverdance, Morcheeba, James Galway and Steps.
He has played swing jazz with The Kimbara Brothers, Diz Disley, Le Jazz, The Hot Club of London, and the Quecumbar Allstars, and leads a 7-piece Soviet swing band, The Kremlinaires.
Chris gives lessons and workshops on jazz violin technique and has taught jazz violin at Middlesex, Brunel and Newcastle universities and Truro College. His writing credits include nine fiddle books, among them The Fiddle Handbook.
He also runs Fiddling Around (fiddlingaround.co.uk), probably the most comprehensive and widely visited source of fiddle information on the web.
