Assignment
Lesson time: (0min 36sec)
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This lesson is part of the course Exploring Jazz Violin part 1
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Lesson transcript:
Assignment for Your Lesson
As your assignment for this lesson, you need to practice all of the following:
- Different arpeggios
- Approaches to following the blues sequence
Listening Component
Additionally, you should:
- Listen to some blues recordings by different artists (not necessarily violinists).
- See how many of the features you can recognize.
Key Goals
You should aim to:
- Count out the 12 bars at least.
- Hear the 1, the 4, and the 5 chords.
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