Free Play Along Lessons

Level up your practice. Enjoy a variety of music styles and improve with human, free, on-demand lessons for students, professionals, and teachers.

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Absolutely love what you're doing!! Thanks for sharing music and a big ole smile every week

Fantastic teacher! Great teaching technique!

This is so fun and heart warming. THANK YOU

This is brilliant! My students really enjoy these, and i'm having fun playing them myself! Thanks for all of you hardwork & generosity!

Your advise about improvising within parameters and guided by what you are already capable of made my heart soar, THAT is where i have Always found creativity to lie, So, I am thrilled that you have so many YouTube resources and I have begun checking them out. Nice to meet you, Christian!

Thanks so much, Christian, I love how your teaching Always puts creativity at the forefront. So many "technique" vídeos et rught to the physical part without discussing how the technique can be used to express oneself through music As educators we are encouraged to increase the level of student VOICE and CHOICE in our programs. What better way to do this than by placing techniques like vibrato in the contexto of providing creative options to musicians?

Your method of providing leadership to several skill levels, and letting your clientes play the riffs you provide - it is the most truly interactive space on YouTube or Facebook, Thanks again.

Christian, I've been feeling dispirited about my playing. Engaging this vídeo was so much fun, It re-energized me, Thanks! I'll look for more!

Hi Christian, your way to teach is very helpful to me, a beginner 52 years old... hahaha I'm waitin' your video just to have fun, following you I have motivation to play, yeah that’s amazing! Motivation and inspiration too.

Holly Molly where have you been all this time Christian, you are a treasure man, and I'm too loyal to classical and now waiting for my new bow order to arrive... feel like switching to Jazz.

I appreciate that you have learned many lessons in life, and even those of us that have lived twice as long still have many lessons to learn, many of which you can teach us. Brilliant Christian, thanks.

Thank you so much! That was amazing! I have a lot of fun practicing this! Really thank you 🙏❤️

Amazing, thoughtful, masterful! Interesting content for almost any creative willing to expand their horizons. Sweet stuff! Thank you!

Thank you for your time... and the joy you share in teaching!

You are AMAZING!!! Thank you! Always motivates me to grab my instrument! Thank you for making the COVID-19 lockdown fun!

You have such a positive vibe, do your thing brotha

THANK YOU! I love your play along videos! Please, don’t stop it! It helps me a lot to learn

"I learned so much from your videos. 😊 just shared.

Explore Our Creative Play-Along Library

Discover an ever-growing collection of engaging play-along videos designed for string players and teachers. With over 100 track, you’ll find music for violin, viola, cello, bass, and more, helping students explore improvisation, harmony, and diverse musical styles.

You can also download the Directory and Backing tracks or check the playlists on YouTube!

Playlists by Genre

Playlists by Difficulty

Want to see more? Explore our huge catalog of violin sheet music and start playing.

Get the most out of the Lessons with our Directory & Backing Tracks

Make the most of your Creative Strings lessons with our exclusive Directory and Backing Tracks — designed to help you explore new rhythms, styles, and creative techniques.

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Our NEW goal…

#TeachTenMillions

Students via free play along lessons so far….

10M Students 25%

* this is a conservative estimate.

Hear from our members

"Such a refreshing way to learn, practice and love the fiddle! I appreciate your online teaching style more than I can say."

"All of the lessons are age-appropriate and fun. Some are definitely more challenging than others, but our students are not all at the same level - so this is perfect! You're doing a great job helping all of us so much! Thank you, Chris!!"

"So cool to have these play-along videos with readymade ideas on different levels! This is a completely new quality of online lessons for me!"

"I don't know of anybody else who teaches improvisation so diligently, thorough and consistently - You have discovered what excitement improvisation can bring and you share it with us all - once again, thank you very much!"

"Your videos are valuable tools to help me in my teaching classically trained violinists cross over into the improvisational work."

Play Along Lessons for Teachers & Players of all levels

Players

improve tone
improve technique
have fun in warm up
get new ideas for how and what to practice
gain motivation
make practicing productive and enjoyable

Teachers

Push play for entire classroom at same time
Assign to students individually
Foster independence and lifelong relationship with music
SEL
DEI
Improvisation
Aural learning
Harmony and theory
Teach eclectic styles
Teach functional musicianship
Meet national standards
Flip your music classroom

I created these play along lessons to help you enjoy practicing, explore new teaching methods, and improve on your own terms.

Creative Strings is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to positively transform music education through school outreach, teacher training, and online curriculum.

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