Discovering Rock Violin

Chris Haigh's introduction to rock violin in two parts: foundations of pentatonics, blues, chords and modes, then deeper style studies across progressive, folk, jazz and hard rock.

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THE SERIES

Courses in this series

Follow them in order — each course builds directly on the last.

Rock Violin Foundations

Chris Haigh on what a violin does in a rock band - accompanying, pentatonic improvising, blues and modal vocabulary, and the chord-tone soloing it all rests on.

28 lessons · 2h 28m · 7 modules

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Rock Violin Styles & Performance

Chris Haigh across rock sub-genres - progressive, folk-rock, jazz-rock, hard rock - plus the pickups, amps and effects to make your violin heard.

18 lessons · 1h 41m · 5 modules

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At a glance

What's in the series

Courses: 2
Lessons: 46
Total runtime: 4h 9m
Level: Intermediate
Grade: Grade 5
Instrument: Violin
Language: English

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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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