Master harmony on the violin fingerboard! This book will give you the fluency to improvise, play comping (accompanying) parts, add background lines, and deepen your enjoyment of all kinds of music. These exercises and etudes will help you practice arpeggios and comping voicings for commonly used chord progressions, with appropriate fingerings and alternate spellings when needed. You will develop left-hand dexterity and broaden your harmonic understanding and vocabulary. Audio tracks let you hear the exercises and then practice along with an accompanist.
You will learn to: Construct the common triads and seventh chords - major, minor, diminished, and minor 7b5; choose fingering strategies for common chord progressions; play chords across the strings; voice-lead chords to transition smoothly and ergonomically; improvise melodic lines over chord changes; comp chord patterns using essential rhythmic grooves.
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Develop your violin fingerboard knowledge and facility. Whether you are looking to unlock your ability to improvise, deepen your knowledge of harmony, compose new works, improve your musical memory, or stregthen your interpretation of Bach, having an intimate relationship with your violin fingerboard is essential. These exercises and etudes from violinist, composer, and educator Jason Anick will forever change the way you look at the fingerboard and lay the foundation for improvisation within any musical style.
You will learn: fingering patterns, practice approaches for improvisation, fundamental chords and arpeggios, a ten-step guide to practicing progressions, pentatonic scales and enclosure licks, navigation and voice-leading techniques for an array of harmonic relationships, five performance-ready jazz violin etudes, and more.
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Here is the chance to enter the new world of playing today's music while learning to express your own music through improvisation. Don't be afraid! Rockin' Strings is going to teach you how to create your own melodies one step at a time. Play along with the accompanying audio tracks. They will make you sound like a star as you begin to progress through the book, exploring additional keys and rhythms while improvising – all in the style of popular music. Play by yourself, with your teacher, your friends, and your school orchestra.
The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Here is a daily dose of vitamins to keep your chops fine tuned! 365 exercises – one for every day of the year. Musical styles include pop, rock, bluegrass, Irish, jazz, funk, and more. Techniques taught include scales, ornaments, rhythm/feel, bowing, arpeggios, playing with others, and stretching out. These exercises will improve facile technique, intonation, style vocabulary, rhythmic acuity, ensemble playing, and more. The accompanying online audio includes all 365 workout licks plus play-along grooves in every style at eight different metronome settings.
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Explores a variety of styles within the Klezmer tradition as well as its history and context. Topics include ornamentation, modes and scales. Includes CD of full performances.
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First published in 1982, but out of print for many years, this new edition of Swinging Texas Fiddlin' contains all the old tunes, as well as Tiny Moore's commentary, found in the original publication. It also includes a foreword by Merle Haggard, whose band in the 1970s included Tiny Moore on mandolin and fiddle. It was on Haggard's band bus that they listened to old Bob Wills tunes, determined to master them on the fiddle, and this was the inspiration for the creation of this book.
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Develop jazz solos using melodic fragments from traditional fiddle tunes. These etudes show how melodic cells can be used to create extended improvisations. In each example, fragments of a traditional fiddle tune (“Turkey in the Straw,” “Arkansas Traveler”) are developed over jazz standard chord progressions. Each etude is preceded by a short introduction, discussing the development techniques at work. The online audio tracks feature swinging interpretations of each etude, and provide play-along tracks so that you can practice each concept.
Online audio is accessed at halleonard.com/mylibrary
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This book guides returning players through 12 specially selected tracks to bring them successfully back up to speed with the violin at their own enjoyable pace. With additional exercises, tips and theory reminders, latent violinists will find the learning curve engaging and rewarding yet flexible, with special focus paid to common issues such as tone, bow control and finger agility. The Restart series of books are written by specialist practicing teachers for people rediscovering the joy of playing music again. Each title comes complete with an accompanying CD of popular and classical backing tracks and online support materials.
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Henry Schradieck chose the modest designation “studies” for his exercises. Their musical substance, however, goes far beyond that of a study. They are character pieces which get their captivating musical expression particularly from the harmonic progression and expressive melodic lines while the rhythm remains relatively consistent to maximize the effect of practising. The pieces are basically caprices (capriccios) which disregard formal rules in an imaginative and playful manner.
Like the famous 24 Études Caprices by Jean Delphin Alard, the studies cover all major and minor scales of the circle of fifths. In addition to the original fingerings, this edition also contains alternative fingering variants which include both playing in the second position and modern change-of-position techniques like creeping and pivoting.
Each study is preceded by short explanations of the editor Benjamin Bergmann concerning the contents and objectives of each study as well as by practical technical information on the performance. This edition is published in the Essential Exercises study series which contains proven practical study works for instrumental lessons.
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Garth Knox is one of the most prolific violists of his generation, and as a former member of the Arditti Quartet for years, he has developed his love of contemporary music. He now gives concerts and organizes workshops all over the world. Following his highly successful Viola Spaces, he has now released the Violin Spaces, concert etudes for violin, which bring advanced playing techniques to advanced players. The pieces - or “spaces” - give each of them a space for specific techniques, such as the flageolette, pizzicato technique (with 10 fingers!) Or glissando variants. The Violin Spaces are dedicated to the violinist Diamanda Dramm, who worked closely with the composer during the development of the pieces. MORE»
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Georges Catherine (1872-1958) is best remembered as a prolific violinist in the orchestra of the Paris Opera. However, he was also a prominent teacher and his Complete Study of the Violin has aided the development of violin technique since its publication in 1948. The first volume, Study of the Mechanism of the Bow considers all bow markings found in music, and substantial notes on how to address each technique. Each bowing technique is accompanied by a sizeable exercise in order to practise and perfect the technique. Comprising 42 detailed bowing studies, Study of the Mechanism of the Bow from Complete Study of the Violin by violin virtuoso, Georges Catherine cannot be missed by aspiring players of the instrument.
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