Assignment
With
Chris HaighYour assignment: gather Stéphane Grappelli recordings from across his career, learn his hot-club riffs and practise them over the backing to Swing Parisienne.
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26 lessons (1h 54m) · 1 free
Lesson transcript
Assignment Overview
Your assignment for this lesson, as it was for Giovannutti, is as follows:
Step 1: Explore Stefan Grappelli's Recordings
- Go out and gather a variety of recordings of Stefan Grappelli, preferably from different periods of his career.
- Note: His playing evolved significantly over the years.
Step 2: Recognize and Learn Riffs
- Listen for and try to recognize some of the riffs that I've shown you.
- Aim to learn a few of your own riffs.
Step 3: Practice with Backing Tracks
- Practice these riffs over the backing for Swing Parisienne.
Step 4: Discover Standard Tunes
- Look for as many tunes that are standards from the hot club style, including:
- Lady Be Good
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Autumn Leaves
Once you've gathered and practiced these tunes, you'll be able to play them with other musicians!
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Meet your guru
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.
