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Rock Violin Styles & Performance

Name: Rock Violin Styles & Performance
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Duration1h 41m

Modules18

LevelIntermediate

LanguageEnglish

Lesson Plan (1h 41m)

- 01. Prog Rock
  Free lesson
  2:41
- 02. Antonio (Performance)
  1:19
- 03. Time Signatures
  5:47
- 04. Revelations 15 (Performance)
  2:24
- 01. Folk Rock 1
  7:26
- 02. Folk Rock 2
  7:32
- 03. Wickam Wanderers (Performance)
  0:37
- 04. Shuffles
  11:18
- 01. Jazz Rock
  9:41
- 02. Drones
  7:14
- 03. Zydocommotion (Performance)
  0:59
- 01. Didier Lockwood
  4:22
- 02. Ionosphere (Performance)
  1:35
- 03. Hard Rock 2
  8:47
- 04. Lead Balloon Analysis
  2:32
- 05. Lead Balloon (Performance)
  1:40
- 01. Amplification
  13:13
- 02. Effects
  11:58

About this course

Chris Haigh is a fiddle player and educator covering rock, country, bluegrass and jazz. Full bio on Chris's artist page.

This is Part 2 of Discovering Rock Violin. After the foundations in Part 1, this course goes style-by-style: progressive rock, folk rock, jazz rock, and hard rock - each with its own vocabulary and techniques. A final section covers essential gear (pickups, amplification, effects).

By the end you'll be able to play idiomatically in four distinct rock sub-genres and know how to amplify your violin for a live band setting.

Who it's for

Violinists who completed Rock Violin Foundations
Players already comfortable with pentatonics ready to specialise
Folk fiddlers expanding into rock sub-genres

What you'll learn

Play idiomatically across progressive, folk, jazz and hard rock
Apply distortion and effects to your violin sound
Choose the right pickup and amplification for a live rock context

What you'll need

A violin and bow you are comfortable with
Comfort with pentatonic and blues scale soloing
A pickup or microphone for amplified practice

Explore the series · Discovering Rock Violin

01
Rock Violin Foundations
02
Rock Violin Styles & Performance
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Meet the Guru

Chris Haigh

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.

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Schott Music

Founded by Bernhard Schott in Mainz in 1770, Schott Music is one of Europe's oldest and largest music publishers, with a catalogue of more than 30,000 titles. Over its 250-year history Schott has issued first editions of Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner, championed 20th-century voices from Hindemith and Schoenberg to Ligeti and Henze, and today publishes sheet music, books and educational materials from offices in Mainz, London, New York, Tokyo and beyond.

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