Improvise jazz on violin with a simple six-step method
Many 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 soloing
Don'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 up
- Discover a systematic guide to improvisation by an award-winning
musician and educator
- Master the simple call and response method of composing improvised
lines
- Grow your skills through a well-conceived method that builds
layer-on-layer
- Improvise using the Minor Pentatonic scale
- Learn how to easily transpose your ideas to any other key
Bonus: Free audio to download, so you can hear exactly how each
example should sound
A simple six-step violin improvisation method that works every time
All 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 ideas
Having begun to improvise, you will also learn:
- To play four specially written tunes that demonstrate how to turn
improvised ideas into songs
- How to compose your own riff blues tune
- Taking beginner jazz violin soloing further
- Learn to play jazz solo lines over the ii V I progression - the most
common chord sequence in Jazz
- Learn violin articulation techniques that add emotion and flair to
your jazz solos, such as legato, staccato, slurs, ghost notes and
more...
- Audio and backing tracks
Beginner 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!
