BEGINNING JAZZ VIOLIN;
A JAZZ VIOLIN BOOK
MENU TO FIDDLE STYLES:
EXPLORING JAZZ VIOLIN
by Chris Haigh
THE FIDDLE HANDBOOK
by Chris Haigh
OFF THE WALL (CD)
By Chris Haigh
In 2010 Chris Haigh wrote the haighly acclaimed "Exploring Jazz Violin", the first of seven fiddle books he has since written for Schott. In 2019 "Beginning Jazz Violin" was published, to concentrate on the basics of swing bowing, the use of scales and riffs in improvisation, and approaches to playing over a chord sequence. The book assumes only a very basic knowledge of theory, and takes a very straightforward nuts and bolts approach. To the outsider improvisation may appear to be magic, but this book de-mystifies every aspect of technique and theory, and leads the reader by careful steps through the early stages of mastering jazz violin.
CONTENTS:
- 1. Getting started; the instrument and its parts. Strings, the bow, posture, general bowing technique, reading music, scales and fingering, intervals and chords.
- 2. Playing with swing. Chain bowing and other swing bowing patterns, syncopation
- 3. Starting to improvise. Phrasing, using pauses, simplicity and repetition, gapped scales, variation in note length, listening to the chords
- 4 .Pentatonic scales. What is a pentatonic scale? Pentatonic patterns and riffs, pentatonics and improvisation.
- 5. Blues. The 12 bar sequence, sliding and bending, flattened 3rds, fifths and sevenths, the minor blues.
- 6. Jazz Licks and how to use them. Moving licks within a blues sequence, modifying licks, extending licks.
- 7. Chords and arpeggios. Root, third and fifth, Choosing notes from within a chord, finger patterns for arpeggios, understanding chord names.
- 8. More about chords. The cycle of fifths, "rhythm changes", the II,V,I.
- 9. Ballad, gypsy bossa and waltz. Triplet feel, harmonics, diminished and augmented chords, latin rhythms.
THE RECORDINGs
This jazz violin book comes with 166 mp3 tracks, including several backing tracks without the top line, to enable you to experiment.
The recordings include the violin of Chris Haigh, Dudley Phillips on double bass, and Nils Solberg and Jez Cook on guitars.
author: Chris Haigh
An introduction to jazz style and technique
Instrumentation: Violin
Publisher: Schott Music
Difficulty: easy to intermediate
Edition: edition with CD
Language: English
Series: Schott Pop-Styles
110 Pages - Paperback/Soft Cover
ISMN: 979-0-2201-3767-9
ISBN: 978-1-84761-477-3
Order number: ED 13906
Price: £19.99
plus delivery
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Chris Haigh is a freelance fiddle player based in London. His playing covers a huge range of styles, all played with commitment and authority. He has played on over 100 albums. He has two books published by Spartan Press; "Fiddling aroud the World" and "Any fool can write Fiddle Tunes", and "The Fiddle Handbook" is published by Backbeat/Hal Leonard. He has seven books published by Schott, covering rock, jazz, folk, klezmer, Hungarian and French fiddle.