- Optimize your practice time and develop harmonic fluency.
- Learn scales commonly used in Jazz and other contemporary styles.
- Scales are written out in all twelve keys for violin, viola, and cello in extended range
- Skill Level: All levels. Exercises lie within first position on the violin and viola.
- Expand your vocabulary and ultimately improvise with greater comfort and ease.
- Internalize jazz arpeggios and improve your harmonic fluency.
- Contains all commonly used seventh chords are transcribed in all inversions in all twelve keys.
- Skill Level: All levels. Exercises lie within first position on the violin and viola.
- Get plugged in and jamming quickly.
- Learn the pros and cons of different gear options including:
- Mics, pick-ups, and solid-body instruments
- amplifiers and PAs
- Effects rigs
- Learn to build chords on your instrument and navigate the fingerboard harmonically.
- This 70-page handbook packed with practical theory, practice exercises, and even solo violin transcriptions and charts.
- Includes conceptual, intuitive, and analytical tools for dealing with harmony, along with chord glossaries.
- Skill Level: Intermediate and Up
- Create a layered backing track inspired by J.S. Bach’s Prelude No. 1 in G Major via loop pedal technology.
- Explore ways to improvise along on top of your new backing track.
- Includes: pdf of Chris’ arrangement of loop layers in staff notation (treble clef), and four-part video series to get you started building your own improvisations over the top.
- Level: Intermediate and Up.
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- Easy Tonal Improvisation Workbook
- Jazz Scales for VIolin, Viola, and Cello
- Jazz Arpeggios for Violin, Viola, and Cello
- The Chromatic Universe (Chromatic Etudes and Mini-Pieces)
- Easy Chords for Violin, VIola and Cello
- The Violin Harmony Handbook
- Quartal Etudes (Fourths)
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