Improvisation & Contemporary Styles for Bowed String Players
Featuring Volt W. Jingjit | Presented by Christian Howes
June 10, 2020
Yamaha Music Hall, Bangkok, Thailand
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This intensive mini-conference includes masterclasses, group lessons, and chamber-music coaching for performers and teachers on bowed strings seeking professional development.
Creative Musicianship– improvisation, arranging, composition, internalization (modal, harmonic, rhythmic), contemporary styles, and related subjects.
Teen, adult, professional, amateur, advanced jazz players, beginning jazz players—all welcome.
Why You Want to Attend This:
✓Become creatively self-expressed and develop your musical voice.
✓Internalize harmony on your instrument.
✓Become fluent in contemporary styles so you can jam with musicians outside of classical music.
✓Be able to use amplification and effects.
✓Get gigs and expand career opportunities.
✓Teachers: Gain age-appropriate sequences to share with students.
✓Gain comfort in improvisation, composition, and arranging.
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Improvisation, Arranging, and Composition
In this session, participants will learn how to create functional melodies over chord progressions through a series of interactive exercises.
Improvisation and composition are demystified as we discover how to construct melodies, bass lines, and accompaniment parts.
Participants will improvise over chord progressions in a wide variety of styles.
*This session integrates composition, voice leading, arranging, contemporary styles/techniques, and tonal improvisation.
Amplification, Looping, & Effects in the Classroom, Practice Room, & Stage
This session presents an overview of how to use loops and effects as a tool for teaching, practice, and performance. Gain insights into how to create loops and how to go beyond the basics.
Blues as a historical and cultural phenomenon
- As a literary form
- As a musical form – harmonically/melodically/rhythmically, in many iterations
- The practice of combining the major and minor pentatonic and/or blues scales
- Examining how bass lines and inner voice patterns show up in common iterations of 12 bar blues, and various common rhythmic/dance forms.
Free Improvisation and Non-Tonal Composition
Participants will compose in small groups using “composition games.” During this interactive session you will feel empowered to perform your compositions and apply what you learned in your daily practice or teaching.
Conducted Group Improvisation
Using cue cards and a system of hand signals, Christian teaches and leads conduction of large group improvisation. Engage in call and response, looping, vamps, modal grooves, occasional musical chaos.
Participants can also conduct the ensemble!
Conduction is a popular practice among contemporary ensembles worldwide, including small groups and even orchestras.
Christian’s approach to conduction borrows from a variety of sources and caters to the skill set of classically trained string players.
Modal Approach to Improvisation
- Advanced and/or intermediate
- Apply a modal approach as an improviser, arranger, or composer.
Internalizing Harmony on the Violin, Viola, and Cello
- Applying harmony on violin, viola, and cello
- Including voice leading arpeggios, scales, and double stops and triple stops.
- Internalizing chord progressions via bass line, inner voices, and sequential patterns.
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Music Business Mastermind Seminar
This session is a seminar based on the program, The Music Biz Mastermind. Christian has used this to help many professional musicians attract more projects, gigs, students, and clients, as detailed in testimonials from graduates HERE.
- Also see online curriculum, school visits, and other multi-day workshops.
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