FCTR: Improvising Over Chords
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- In this episode of 'From Classical To Radical' Matt explains how to navigate chord charts by playing chord tones to create a melodic line.
If you haven't tried this before it my be slow going initially and you may have to plan your moves before executing them, but with practice comes fluency. Spend time practicing improv over I-V-vi-IV using the techniques laid out in the video (there's a backing track of this progression in the same key Matt uses in the demo here: • I V vi IV in G Major 7... ). If you get confident in G major, try working in another key.
We'll get a little deeper into improv techniques in later videos. In the meantime we strongly encourage you check out the top-notch improv courses by our friends Christian Howes and Jacob Szekely...
Christian Howes 'Creative Strings Academy': creativestrings...
Jacob Szekely's 'The Improvisor's Guide To The Cello': theimprovisorsg...
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THE BEST EXPLANATION EVER!! I’ve been searched for months and stumbled across this video and I feel like it’s possible to go from classical to chords… thank you!! Following for sure!
Classical musicians should have improvisation as part of their training, ☺️
Listen to Bach the master musician
Eyeopening lesson! Thank you so much!
2:43 how to play safely with chords
6:56 chord types
Most videos on beginning improvisation miss the key point given here that, as a foundational beginning, know the notes of each chord and learn to land on one those notes when the chord changes. Without this, your solos are often going to sound pointless and soulless. Later, as you develop your skills you can move on to breaking these rules and learning exotic scales and modes, but the rules are always there to bail you out. So kudos to this video creator for teaching this when so many fail to mention it.
Thanks so much!
Wow, this is great stuff. Anyone wanting to play backup, improvise, get started writing music, learning chords, getting more familiar with music theory, ALL of them need this lesson.
This video was super helpful! Whenever my band gets scheduled to play, we get a chord chart, and I , as a violinist had no idea what to do with that. Now I have a clearer way of reading any chord chart and improvising over it! Thank you!
Awesome! Glad we could help!
This is the best video concerning improvisation on Violin, I’ve been looking for this answer for some time and I stumbled on it on utube, it’s brilliant.
I learned with my band and it didn't take long before I thought I was the lead guitarist. If you're a classically trained musician, you'll realize your ear knows all of this even if you don't but once you get to having fun with it, you'll realize just how few wrong notes there are.
Haha! You're never more than a half-step away from a good choice.
Wow, thanks! This is ingenious. It will help me with the worship music at my church a lot
@Hellequin Maskharat I'm not from Germany 😂
Excellent video, Matt. I learnt so much. Thanks.
Excellent explanations & visuals!
Hi! Just wanted to say: Absolutely great help! My violin teacher plays in a gypsy jazz band and now that I got the violin basics pretty much sorted out (after 3 years.. darn its a tough instrument) we're heading more towards the jazzy side and he wants me to improvise over It's A Sin To Tell A Lie. This video helped a lot, very straight to the point! Thanks again!
Awesome! Glad it helped.
Excellent vidéo!
Matt, this was VERY helpful - as a classically trained musician, some of this was known subconsciously, but, seeing it and hearing it played made alot of sense! What kind of instrument are you playing and what kinds of pickups? Sounds great.
I agree with the comment about classic musicians learning to improvise. I was a classically trained on piano violin and voice.. I played violin primarily and was able to play anything I heard on the violin. I also did theory with my music teachers so I had the tools to be able to improvise but I was always insecure about it and avoided something that is the best part of knowing how to play. I wish someone in that time just showed me how the theory and know how to read music along iwith scales and chords is 90 % of the battle and I was on my way . I am starting to play music again and I have been away a long time but I will not make that mistake this time and I am so excited that I will be able to do this on my own and jam with others.
One of the big hangups for classically trained players is the "complex complex". It's been beat into our heads that "good" music is "difficult" or "complex". Simple, by extension, must be bad.
Some of the best solos you'll ever hear are not technically difficult to play. They're just musical.
Really helpful. Thank you!
your a dam good teacher young man
lol! The ship sailed on "young" a long time ago but thanks very much and I hope you enjoy!
This is well done and well explained. Very helpful indeed.
THANX Matt I've recently discovered yer channel. Yer video on the electric violins in yer shop was really impressive. The guy you had playin em was awesome. I liked the Zeta Jazz classic style. I'm a novice player and not ready for an electric violin yet but by summer I'd like to get with and get it on. Thanx Matt Bell thank you so much. Mr. Mark
Thank you so much for this bro😊
Thank you for this!!!
Mann, you're a life saver!! Tysm
Nicely done, Matt. A good short intro to this subject, which seems so simple to experienced improvisors (ie, non classical violinists or cellists), but which seems like rocket science if you've always depended on the written page to tell you what to play. Suggestions for additional vids in the same vein; maybe you've already thought of them: playing long singing lines when the changes and rhythm are choppy; playing rhythmic and pulsing rhythms when the changes are slower and smoother; reinforcing the rhythm by emphasizing certain beats. Or just simply how to add your part to a reggae (for ex) song.
Thanks for watching and for the suggestions. Yes, we're planning on talking about what to play in a song. We'll get into breaking down a pop song and talking about funding parts, writing parts, and all that. Good advice. Thanks!
Thanks for your lessons. It helps me a lot!!!
Thanks for watching! Glad you find it helpful.
I love this! Thanks man!
Nice
Great! Thanks!
Thanks Matt. I notice that 'Wagon Wheel' and 'Crescent City' strongly follow that common sequence: G D Em C
Good stuff Matt!
Very helpful, thank you :)
very good information
Loving it! 😍😍😍
This is very helpful, thank you!
sangat bermanfaat ! Matur suksma 🤠🤠🤠🌹🎻
I love it, thanks!!!
Thanks, helped me alot
Thank you
this tutorial is really helpful; thank you! also your accent is gorgeous :-)
Haha! Thank 10 years in Texas and 10 years in North Carolina.
This is amazing tysm!!
😱 thank you!
excellent video..make a video on playing by ear
Dear Matt, I learned more in half an hour from your little lesson than any other lesson. I knew a little to start with but improvising was a bit of a mystery - I play guitar and just used the box system - any note in the scale in any order - not great! For a complete beginner you could talk a bit slower and explain a little more, otherwise super! Note that your example is the chord sequence in "Wagon Wheel!" Lost John Btw Does this apply to the blues?
That's great feedback. Thanks for watching. Sometimes I get a little excited and talk too fast. lol!
thats awesome but could you put the violin notes on the music staff right after the tremble cleft
Guess that was a no
Traduz este vídeo para português. Traduz suas aulas . Please!
Sir , is it possible to find chords of song using violin alone?
Of course
Can you please make a video on this🙏🙏
Any tips for finding interesting rhythms? I can play good sounding notes over songs, but I struggle coming up with rhythms that sound more daring than a stock track or whatever another instrument is already doing.
The best tip I've ever gotten is to listen to some rhythms as you're speaking and use those. Think up a sentence and just play the same rhythm that you'd use as you say that sentence.
@@ElectricViolinShop that's a golden tip, thank you so much for replying!
That first chord sequence is used a lot and sounds good. e.g Wagon Wheel. Crescent City
Good video. Though i wish i can see your fingers.
Proprietary
Nice