Swingin' Jazz Fiddle Solos

A dynamic and interactive course for the early-intermediate fiddle-player to start improvising with traditional swing and jazz styles.Glaser begins with some intuitive call-and-response patterns allowing you to build increasingly complex phrases at your own pace whilst your improvising confidence grows. The lesson is punctuated with some fascinating information technical tips and essential elements of theory. Circle of fifths 7ths diminished chords whole tone scales bowing patterns and phrasing are all discussed in detail creating a full vocabulary from which your musical imagination can blossom.To put all the information into context Glaser breaksdown and analyses some significant violin solos including performances by Stephane Grappelli and Claude 'Fiddler' Williams. If you are looking for a way to make your fiddle-playing swing with that authentic jazz sound look no further.

'The greatest jazz secret ' 'Great Dane ' 'Fiddler Supreme.' Danish violinist Svend Asmussen has been dubbed many wondrous titles. Duke Ellington's first reaction 'Man you play a hell of a lot of fiddle!' Mr. Asmussen has played with many other music legends Edith Piaf Benny Goodman Hoagy Carmichael Nat King Cole Herbie Hancock and more. At 95 he is still going strong. After a DVD on his life was presented in 2006 by Universal/Shanachie Entertainments The Extraordinary Life and Music of a Jazz Legend he produced in 2009 the Makin' Whoopee! Cd for Arbors Records and saw the production of Don't get around much anymore in which the classical violin virtuoso KimSjøgren plays the solos Svend Asmussen composed while living in the South of France years ago. Mr. Asmussen has stated 'My unattainable model was of course Johan Sebastian Bach whose famed violin solos I often practice playing.'These solos and the charts of numbers by Gershwin Ellington and Asmussen among others will attract violinists everywhere as swinging encores and as integral parts of their repertoire.The greatest secret is no longer a secret ...