Assignment: Joe Venuti
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Chris HaighYour assignment from Chris Haigh: get hold of a Joe Venuti box set, listen for the licks you've learned, and try them over the 'Jumping with Joe' backing track.
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26 lessons (1h 54m) · 1 free
Lesson transcript
Assignment: Giovannuta Recordings
Your assignment for this lesson is to go out and get yourself a box set of Giovannuta recordings.
Objectives:
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Entertainment and Utility: You'll find it very entertaining and useful.
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Recognition of Licks: See if you can recognize the licks that I've taught you.
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Exploration: See if you can pick up some more of his licks.
Practical Application:
Using the backing for Jumping with Joe, try some of these licks out!
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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.
