Assignment
Lesson time: (0min 53sec)
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This lesson is part of the course Exploring Jazz Violin part 1
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Lesson transcript:
Assignment for This Lesson
Now, your assignment for this lesson.
First of all, think about the fact that eventually we're going to have the theoretical knowledge to deal with this problem.
But for now, I want you to:
- Listen through to the chords:
- Tell when something has changed.
- This means that you do have to take this kind of evasive action.
Instructions:
- Go back through this tune and keep on improvising up and down.
- Every time you play a note or hear a note that sounds wrong:
- Try and work out what to do about it.
Onwards and upwards!
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