Welcome to the course!
With
Chris HaighChris Haigh welcomes you to part two of Exploring Jazz Violin, moving into chords, chord sequences and the improvising language of players like Jean-Luc Ponty and Stuff Smith.
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
Welcome to the Course!
Hi, welcome to the course.
Course Overview
This course covers:
- Chords and chord sequences
- Improvising language of the greats such as:
- Jean Luc Ponty
- Stuff Smith
In the last series of videos, I showed you:
- The easy way into improvisation.
One of the reasons it was easy is that we avoided thinking too much about:
- Chords
- Theory
This approach is effective because:
- It gives you confidence
- It allows you to start quickly with improvisation.
Moving Forward
However, at some point, you're going to come across more difficult chord sequences. This is what the series of videos we're starting now is all about.
Key Focus
- Getting more confident about dealing with chords that are not so easy and straightforward.
There is quite a lot of theory at the beginning, but that will provide you with the grounding to take on the really fun stuff at the end, where I teach you the improvising language of:
- Jean Luc Ponty
- Stuff Smith
- And so on.
Okay, let's get into it!
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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.
