Mastering Jazz Violin: Start with These 3 Essential Tunes! (Jazz violin lesson)
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Check out my advice for the first three tunes to learn as a beginner jazz violinist. Let me know if you think that there are any other tunes that should be in here.
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Really, If you want to get a secure foothold on Jazz Improv on the Violin, the basic Bugle call in Bb is the first place to start. It gives you a framework to see, feel and hear the Major Triad in all it's inversions, starting on the Fifth. If you also learn it in the Relative Minor, you will have a Gateway to everything from Bach to Gershwin to Blakey. Check out Barny Wilen's ( a French Saxophonist) interpretations of Minor Swing from Jazz Sur la Seine & Dangerous Liaisons with Art Blakey. This incredibly gifted and mostly unknown Saxophonist was influenced by Steph & Django, Charles Trenet, Charlie Parker & Miles Davis, John Coltrane, George Gershwin and Cole Porter. Dangerous Liaisons is also know as "No Problem" It is a Minor Blues with a Bridge, very playable on the violin and has a little Tag of a Blues Lick that is a Nod to the 2nd Four Notes of I Got Rhythm. So it gives you an Idea of how to play Bluesy Licks that aren't based on the Blues Scale. Dig? Cheers, Jack
Matt Holborn you're really something!!! I love your musical languaje
Really appreciate these words! Thank you
I love those tunes. But tell me, do Jazz people like to play Western Swing tunes like "Right or Wrong", "Old Fashioned Love".
I think there are some early jazz fiddlers who crossover with those sort of tunes, Iv only ever heard “old fashioned love” called at a jazz jam in the states. It was called by a fiddler who played both jazz and old time.
Check out George Washingmachine. He's an Aussie Jazz Violinist who has a Lot of Stuff Smith in his playing, but also plays a lot of Western Swing. Further more, Charlie Christian was a Huge fan of Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys ( got this from a PhD thesis I found online). Charlie got hep to Django and Steph through jamming with the Playboys. He took that to Benny Goodman ( who he was said to have remarked "Benny can't Swing") and later to Minton's. So all those cats got hip to Gypsy Jazz through Charlie. You can actually hear a lot of Django in Thelonious Monk's Tunes. I myself couldn't get any records of Django & Steph when I first started out, so I started learning Charlie Parker by ear (very difficult) and Charlie Christian from "Solo Flight" a book of transcriptions. But My brother bought me a Bob Will's album for Christmas "For the Last time". That is where I learned how to Swing. I learned every tune off that Album and every instrument. If you want to hear some outrageous Bebop check out Buddy Emmons, a Pedal Steel Player who is Off the Charts. Saw him live back in the day. Western Swing got it's name when a Texas Swing band led by Spade Cooley beat Benny Goodman's band in a Band against Band duel out in California. The radio announcer was so taken aback that he coined the term "Western Swing" on the spot.
Amazing... I love it
Thank you!
That explained a lot- as a beginning violin player, I always ignored the chord designations in the music and just played the melody- this video helps me understand how they fit in with the key signatures and the cadence of the piece. Thanks for the video.
Glad it was helpful! I’ll try and make some more of these types of video!
Bob in the background. Way cool!
Bob is alway in the background!
Very cool
Thanks pal
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Thanks Matt. 👌
Thanks John, do you agree that these are good starters?