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10 Ways to Improv – $2.00

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For beginning improvisers. This lesson shows how to begin improvising only by using different methods and patterns of continuous 8th notes.

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More Improv – $2.00

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For beginning improvisers. This lesson shows how to being improvising with methods such as changing the melody to familiar songs, changing motifs in common exercises, and improvising techniques to cure technical playing problems.

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Bebop Scale 1 – $2.00

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For intermediate improvisers. This lesson shows how to create fast streams of 8th notes using the bebop scale.

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Bebop Scale 2 – $2.00

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For advanced improvisers. A continued lesson of the first lesson of bebop scales, this video shows more advanced ways to use the bebop scale to create fast streams of 8th notes while improvising.

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Chord Inversions – $2.00

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For intermediate improvisers. This lesson demonstrates the importance of knowing how to arpeggiate chords from all four chord tones, the root, the third, the fifth, and the seventh

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Christian Howes String Productions provides affordable string arrangements and remote, online string recording for albums, commercials, films, video games, and more. We also provide remote tracking of other instruments, score preparation, orchestration, transcription and more. Our clients include top producers and composers worldwide.

Christian Howes was voted #1 in the Downbeat Critics Poll (“Rising Stars/Violin”), named among the top three jazz violinists in the JazzTimes critics poll, and nominated for Violinist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist Association. He received the Residency Partner Award through Chamber Music America, earned a USArtists grant through the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and was invited by the U.S. State department to teach and perform as a cultural ambassador twice, in Ukraine and Montenegro. His release on Resonance Records, “Southern Exposure” earned recognition in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Downbeat, Jazz Times, as well as a six-night run at Lincoln Center. His release, “American Spirit” was named among the Best Jazz Albums of 2015″ by the Huffington Post.

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A former Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music, Christian helps string players and teachers expand into improvisation, contemporary styles, and related subjects through his Creative Strings Academy (DIY online study), Creative Strings Workshop, student-friendly play-along lessons , and many other instructional resources.
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