Beginner Jazz Soloing for Violin: The Beginner’S Guide to Jazz Improvisation for Concert Pitch Instruments
Synopsis "Beginner Jazz Soloing for Violin: The Beginner’S Guide to Jazz Improvisation for Concert Pitch Instruments"
Improvise jazz on violin with a simple six-step methodMany string players come from a classical background which may not have taught them how to play by ear. While this can provide an excellent grounding in music, it doesn’t teach you how to improvise, and often it's difficult for classically trained musicians to learn Jazz soloing.Beginner Jazz Soloing For Violin is the perfect guide to bridge the gap. Devised by Buster Birch (visiting jazz professor at Trinity Conservatoire), this book teaches a creative method for improvisation that's been road-tested at hundreds of workshops.Professor approved jazz violin soloingDon't just take our word for it!“This is a great resource, both for beginners and more advanced students (it’s always good to go backwards!) Buster arranges this in a way that introduces ideas logically and slowly, yet still allows for creativity and invention.”Liam Noble, Professor of Jazz Piano at Birmingham Conservatoire & Trinity College of Music “The music world has been waiting for a series like this to help release students (and their teachers) from any need to be fearful of musical creativity. In clear steps Buster has has de-mystified the first steps of an improviser’s and a composer’s craft.”Howard Moody, Composer (Glyndebourne, La Monnaie, Opéra national du Rhin, LSO, SCO, La Folia); ECM Recording Artist Learn to improvise blues and jazz on violin from the ground upDiscover a systematic guide to improvisation by an award-winning musician and educatorMaster the simple call and response method of composing improvised linesGrow your skills through a well-conceived method that builds layer-on-layerImprovise using the Minor Pentatonic scaleLearn how to easily transpose your ideas to any other keyBonus: Free audio to download, so you can hear exactly how each example should soundA simple six-step violin improvisation method that works every timeAll the exercises in this book have been tried and tested in jazz workshops with both child and adult learners, producing astonishing results time and again. In 2017 the author’s jazz school won the prestigious Will Michael Diploma Award for Jazz Education – a national award recognising “outstanding commitment to jazz education”.In Beginner Jazz Soloing For Violin the art of improvisation for beginners is broken down into six steps that guide students to become confident improvisers. You will become fully equipped to improvise a solo with confidence.Learn to improvise on violin and create your own musical ideasHaving begun to improvise, you will also learn: To play four specially written tunes that demonstrate how to turn improvised ideas into songsHow to compose your own riff blues tuneTaking beginner jazz violin soloing furtherLearn to play jazz solo lines over the ii V I progression – the most common chord sequence in JazzLearn violin articulation techniques that add emotion and flair to your jazz solos, such as legato, staccato, slurs, ghost notes and more...Audio and backing tracksBeginner Jazz Soloing For Violin contains FREE audio examples and backing tracks. You'll hear each idea in action and every articulation clearly played for you to copy. It truly is a one-stop-shop on your path to jazz improvisation Buy Beginner Jazz Soloing For Violin and get creative right now.Today is the day you learn to improvise!
