Assignment: Cycle of Fifths
With
Chris HaighFind the chords and melody to Sweet Georgia Brown, one of Grappelli's trademark tunes, and practice the ideas for improvisation that we have looked at here
What's in the course
28 lessons (1h 46m) · 1 free
01. Diminished chords
6:10
02. Assignment: diminished
0:17
03. Augmented chords
3:48
04. Assignment: augmented chords
0:19
05. Minor 7b5/7b9
2:24
06. Assignment m7b5/7b9
1:15
07. Slash and sus chords
6:18
08. Assignment: slash and sus chords
0:18
09. Substitutions and playing outside
7:21
10. Assignment: playing outside
0:29
Lesson transcript
Lesson Assignment: Sweet Georgia Brown
Your assignment for this lesson is to:
- Find the chords and melody to Sweet Georgia Brown, one of Grappelli's trademark tunes.
- Practice the ideas for improvisation that we've explored in class.
Practice Sequence
Use the following sequence to practice simple licks in every key:
- Remember to work from the relationships of the notes to the chords.
- Otherwise, you'll quickly get lost.
Happy practicing!
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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.
