Essential Literature
- 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.
- 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
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- Learn to create melodies, harmonies, and bass lines over the ubiquitous chord progression from Pachelbel’s Canon.
- Develop the skills needed to arrange, compose, and improvise over triadic chord progressions- the types of skills needed to make your own cover songs
- This course contains a treasure-trove of materials: 2 videos series, 6 play-along mp3s, a stand-a-lone workbook, and other handouts Written materials utilize our innovative “chord stacks” diagrams which allow you to learn to create lines in a connect-the-dots fashion
- Skill Level: All levels. Workbook is color-coded to help less experienced readers.
- Start improvising NOW- without judgement or fear.
- Develop your own sound and musical signature.
- Includes two full video series that you can dive into immediately no matter your level of fluency in technique, harmony, and contemporary styles.
- Skill Level: All levels Also included in our Creative Strings Academy
- Teach Improvisation to your students in a clear, easy, all-ages-friendly way.
- Gain new insights on the nature of improvisation.
- This series contains 7 lesson videos where Christian Howes’ reveals the secrets behind his unique approach to teaching improvisation.
- Skill Level: Intended for teachers. Concepts are appropriate for all levels.
- Hear and internalize harmony as thoroughly as you do melody.
- Master skills utilized on a daily basis by top improvising violin players worldwide- skills taught at the Berklee School of Music as part of their string major proficiency requirements.
- This bundle includes a four-part video series of Chris demonstrating and expanding on key information found in the Violin Harmony Handbook (also included!)
- Level: Intermediate and Up
- Learn how to play this bedrock style of contemporary American music from which Pop, Rock, R&B, Jazz, Gospel, Hip Hop, and others draw.
- Create tension and richness in your playing, both rhythmically and harmonically.
- This course includes 5 lesson videos, 2 mp3s and a worksheet to get you started on things like:
- Translating the blues literary form into effective melodic expression
- Generating rhythmic tension through the manipulation of triplets
- Creating bass lines & comping patterns in 12 bar blues within various grooves
- 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.
- Master the Bossa and Samba styles for violin, viola, & cello.
- Included in this course: 4 instructional videos, 30 minute in-depth audio commentary, and more.
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- Internalize both the sound and mechanics of the diminished scale on the violin, viola, or cello.
- Learn how to apply this essential sonic color over dominant chords.
- This bundle contains 3 lesson videos, one PDF, and one mp3.
- Skill Level: Advanced.
- Increase your comfort and ease playing faster over ii-V-I progressions.
- This series includes 3 lesson videos, transcriptions in all twelve keys, and worksheets for each video.
- Skill Level:< Advanced.
- Add more tonal colors to your improvisatory palate.
- Evoke the sound of Modern Jazz in your improvisations.
- This bundle includes: 4 instructional videos and two practice charts.
- Skill Level: Advanced. Also included in our Creative Strings Academy
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- 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
- Change up the melody to familiar songs
- vary the motifs in common exercises
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Trail Magic straddles jazz and funk, with intense jams and wide-ranging moods.
This album will be MAILED to you at the address listed with your Paypal profile. Your bonus downloadable chart will be sent via email immediately upon purchase.
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