Play along for an easy fun practice and learn things about music you didn’t know

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Practical tools to Reduce stress & calm your inner critic. move towards emotional freedom and effortless action.


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www. Evangregor.com

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Get in the zone of productive relaxed practice, Play short phrases after me. Feel free to play what I play or make your own variations.

The two chords we are following are a and C minor.

You can use the A natural minor scale over the A minor chord (no sharps or flats)

You can use the C natural
Minor scale on the C minor chord (3 flats)

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Get Secrets of blues phrasing and play along over old school jazz funk r&b groove on violin viola cello or any instrument. This is a more advanced play along. For easier lessons look around on my channel playlists.

For more skills get my free skills ecourse here: https://swiy.co/Free_Skills_Ecourse

#BluesVIolin #PlayAlong #IntermediatetoAdvanced

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How I practice: 1) Compose and play all the parts of a loop with my violin and effects. 2) Improvise over the loop. 3) review and revise.

Subscribe to this channel for more loops, play alongs and violin practice tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8F8hYmxpH3MvxCOb57wfbA/

This electric violin loop feels like it has a dance party vibe lol. It's challenging for me to improvise over. So it's good practice:)

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A fun violin rhythm work out (for viola or cello as well) to get you grooving, letting go of tension, and keeping your body loose.

#EASY level 1-2

5:33:00 Getting tricky
6:42:00 Doubles
7:12:00 Advanced Workout
8:00:00 Do your thing! Play after me

Want an intro private lesson? I currently give these FREE in conjunction with trial at Creative Strings Academy. (you also get 7 of my books).

If you want to make faster progress in your musical practice and enjoy it more, book a lesson w me here: https://hi.switchy.io/BookLesson
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🔵SUBSCRIBE to this channel for new play along videos almost daily : https://swiy.co/_SUBSCRIBE

🔵 Get the more out of your practice, join me for Weekly Guided Practice Sessions on Zoom or in-person : https://swiy.co/CreativeStringsWorkshop

🔵 FREE MASTERCLASS - Get lightness, clarity, and better outcomes from your practice with my new masterclass: https://swiy.co/_FreeMasterclass

🔵 Improvise to Many Styles & Become a more Creative Violin Player: https://swiy.co/_CreativeStringsAcademy
🎻🎻EASY ONLINE TRAINING (video lessons, workbooks, play along tracks & more)

🔵 More resources for Creative String Players: https://swiy.co/_ChristianHowes

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All level of players can benefit from this free blues fiddle lesson play along video. Its good for violin, viola, cello and other instruments too.

More blues violin play along videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6By1KZHRO2I3MiQt6qRCl0TP597_iBcC
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🔵 Free Blues Fiddle Play-Along Masterclass: https://swiy.co/BluesFiddleGuidedPractice

🔵 Learn more about playing the blues with my Blues Improvisation Multimedia Series (Videos, Mp3s, Worksheets) : https://swiy.co/_BluesImprovisationCourse

🔵SUBSCRIBE to this channel for new play along videos almost daily : https://swiy.co/_SUBSCRIBE

🔵 Get the more out of your practice, join me for Weekly Guided Practice Sessions on Zoom or in-person : https://swiy.co/CreativeStringsWorkshop

🔵 FREE MASTERCLASS - Get lightness, clarity, and better outcomes from your practice with my new masterclass: https://swiy.co/_FreeMasterclass

🔵 Improvise to Many Styles & Become a more Creative Violin Player: https://swiy.co/_CreativeStringsAcademy
🎻🎻EASY ONLINE TRAINING (video lessons, workbooks, play along tracks & more)

🔵 More resources for Creative String Players: https://swiy.co/_ChristianHowes
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More about Blues Fiddle:
🎻 Blues Fiddle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_fiddle
🎻 Blues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues
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​​#FreeBluesFiddleLesson #BluesFiddle #BluesViolin

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Play Along in G Major to a challenging lesson. Level 3-4 for intermediate to advanced players. Not only develop your ears, but integrate technique and improvisation with new melodic shapes and rhythms. Find easier lessons at this channel as well and find hundreds of play along lessons of many styles and levels via our searchable directory: https://christianhowes.com/2020/03/26/play-along-lessons-home/

#ViolinPractice
#PlayAlong
#CreativeStrings

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🔵SUBSCRIBE to this channel for new play along videos almost daily : https://swiy.co/_SUBSCRIBE

🔵 FREE MASTERCLASS - Get lightness, clarity, and better outcomes from your practice with my new masterclass: https://swiy.co/_FreeMasterclass

🔵 Improvise to Many Styles & Become a more Creative Violin Player: https://https://swiy.co/_CreativeStringsAcademy
🎻🎻EASY ONLINE TRAINING (video lessons, workbooks, play along tracks & more)

🔵 Get the more out of your practice, join me for Weekly Guided Practice Sessions on Zoom or in-person : https://swiy.co/CreativeStringsWorkshop

🔵 More resources for Creative String Players: https://swiy.co/_ChristianHowes
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John "Adidam" Littlejohn shares how he resources his high-level tuition-free string camp www.stringbootcamp.com and how he balances/approaches life as a minister, educator, and violinist.

00:00 Thrive City String Bootcamp
04:46 Advanced seminar
10:18 Origins of camp
13:17 Teaching in inner-city schools
14:58 Where to apply
18:50 Instructors and space
24:12 Inspiration
26:00 Being a pastor and musician
30:27 Music is ministry
32:08 Day-to-day life
33:48 Putting in the time and effort
35:06 Entrepreneurship and God
39:28 What can a non-believer learn from faith?
42:17 Get outside yourself
47:36 Looking for ways to help others
49:27 Closing

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Conducted group improvisation at our live creative strings workshops- I also teach this in orchestra classrooms. Learn more here:
https://christianhowes.com/creative-strings-asheville-extension/
A yearly music retreat for performers and teachers seeking transformative growth.
The Asheville retreat is Creative String’s most intimate in-person workshop (max 20 participants per session). Get away from large crowds and enjoy a fresh breath of air.

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Play Along for an enjoyable practice to integrate ear training with left and right hand technique.
This is a " level 2 Easy play along". For an EASIER play along, see the level 1 video here: https://youtu.be/H5WiyKhTU_w

Find more practice aids at www.christianhowes.com. There are orchestra teacher resources as well as tools for string teachers, Suzuki violin students, adult fiddle students and more.

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🔵SUBSCRIBE to this channel for new play along videos almost daily : https://swiy.co/_SUBSCRIBE

🔵 FREE MASTERCLASS - Get lightness, clarity, and better outcomes from your practice with my new masterclass: https://swiy.co/_FreeMasterclass

🔵 Improvise to Many Styles & Become a more Creative Violin Player: https://https://swiy.co/_CreativeStringsAcademy
🎻🎻EASY ONLINE TRAINING (video lessons, workbooks, play along tracks & more)

🔵 Get the more out of your practice, join me for Weekly Guided Practice Sessions on Zoom or in-person : https://swiy.co/CreativeStringsWorkshop

🔵 More resources for Creative String Players: https://swiy.co/_ChristianHowes
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Play Along ( Easiest Level!) I'm going back to making a series on this loop from the easiest to most advanced level. Bear in mind that even if you are advanced, a lot of good can come from playing "easy" ideas WELL. Many advanced students can benefit from bringing a higher level of awareness to playing easy passages. Having said this, I wanted to make sure there is more material available for players who do not yet have the technical facility to play faster lines.

Get my Searchable DIrectory of Play Alongs so you can search by topic/style/level, etc.. here: https://christianhowes.com/2020/03/26/play-along-lessons-home/

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In this episode, Austin Scelzo discusses his experiences as part of the next generation of music teachers helping students to develop a positive, lifelong, participatory relationship with music.

Our discussion includes...

- Austin’s advice to other teachers trying to work outside the box of “traditional” music standards
- Austin’s goals in the classroom and how he accomplished them (musical objectives, standards, community involvement, parental involvement, student engagement, et al)
- What metrics he used to measure results
- How Austin adapted to teaching online during the pandemic
- Why he left classroom teaching
- How his thinking on music entrepreneurship has evolved
- The top things he would like to see changed in classroom music education
- The top things that other teachers, if they realized, would make their lives easier
- Dealing with insecurities to be able to grow to the point of touring at major festivals
- How his professional journey (teacher/musician) is tied to his personal growth

#CreativeStrings
#OrchestraTeacher
#MusicEntreprenuer

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