Improvising Violin (Homespun Tapes) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book includes a lot of history on contemporary violin styles from jazz to rock. Readers are guided to pioneers of each genre and prominent musicians are highlighted. There is also a section on amplifying your violin, where traditional/classical violinist who are new to "loud" gigs will find very useful. Amplifiers, pickups, solid violins and radical violin styles, effects are all mentioned and discussed. The third part of the book introduces a lot of solid practices for nearly all the styles that are mentioned in the book, and 'licks' and music scores are provided.It is a book with lots of worthwhile information and very clear instructions, but the limited amount of music score material on each style kind of leave you hanging for more after you are all hyped up. The author have put out new, more focused books on specific styles in 2001, and I can't wait to get my hands on those. Definitely a very enlightening and helpful book. Good for beginning fiddlers and classically trained violinists. Performing violinist might find the music material too basic, but in my opinion worth owning anyway.

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These CDs include improvisation techniques in folk, blues, swing, jazz and New Age music. Filled with invaluable information on technique, musicianship, theory, and new mental and physical approaches to playing. Guitar and piano rhythm tracks are provided for practice. 7 songs.

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Swing-Jazz Violin with Hot-Club Rhythm Sheet Music (String Letter Publishing) (Strings) Review

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(More customer reviews)CONTENTS

1. Chicago
2. Some of These Days
3. After You've Gone
4. Sheik of Araby
5. Margie
6. Swingin' Like 42
7. My Melancholy Baby
8. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
9. Dark Eyes
10. China Boy
11. Swing in Minor
12. The Japanese Sandman
13. Rose Room
14. The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
15. Avalon
16. St. Louis Blues
17. Some of These Days (String Quartet)

This instructional book complete with sheet music offers melodies and solos to 16 great jazz standards. Practice and improvise along with a recorded "Hot-Club" style band. Learn playing tips from one of America's finest violinists Jeremy Cohen. Build your strength, stamina, focus, and improvising chops by jamming with the band. You'll begin by learning melodies and solos to some of the greatest and best known jazz standards, by playing along with a wonderful recorded band playing in the "Hot Club" or "Gypsy jazz" style. Each melody and solo is recorded at both slow and regular speeds, and you'll be able to practice them all with extended band rhythm tracks. Just about any violinist at any level of development can play along with one speed or the other.

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Explore the world of jazz violin with one of America's finest jazz and swing violinists, Jeremy Cohen. With this book/CD pack, violinists can: practice soloing and improvising along with a recorded Hot-Club-style band * learn melodies and solos to 16 great jazz standards * build strength, stamina, focus, and improvising skills by jamming with the band. Includes two audio CDs with variable-speed practice tracks and full-band accompaniment.

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