Goodbye Liza Jane (solo performance)
Lesson time: (1min 17sec)
Chris Haigh plays a fiddle solo over 'Goodbye Liza Jane', mixing the major blues scale, arpeggios and riffs over the backing for you to play along with.
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This lesson is part of the course Introduction to Country & Bluegrass Fiddle
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Lesson transcript:
Solo Practice: Goodbye, Liza Jane
Okay, so now we're going to try a solo over Goodbye, Liza Jane using the backing.
Approaches to Use
We'll employ three different approaches:
- The major blues scale
- The scales and arpeggios
- The riffs
We'll mix those up as we play.
Practice Steps
- I'll play this slowly through at first.
- Then we'll do it with the backing.
Start Slowly
So, one, two, three.
Speed It Up
Okay, now let's try that. Speed it up with the backing.
About the instructor
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. read more