Autumn Leaves; easy ways to create a jazz violin solo
Autumn Leaves is one of the best known and best loved minor key jazz standards, and perfect for the jazz violinist. In this lesson I examine various simple approaches to soloing. Firstly, using the natural minor scale, then the harmonic minor scale. We then try the minor pentatonic and minor blues scales, before finally treating the sequence as a series of II/V/I's.
To learn more about jazz violin, see my books "Exploring jazz violin" and "Beginning jazz violin" published by Schott
Below are details of further fiddle resources from Chris Haigh
1. Patreon
2. Books
3. Subscription video courses
4. Website
5. Email to request pdf’s.
1. PATREON
This is a platform where anyone can directly help to support creative artists and get closer access to their work. You can join me on Patreon at three levels, for £4, £10 or £40 per month.
At the lowest level you get access to all my pdf’s and tune collections, plus many exclusive tuition videos not available to the public.
At level 2 you can join also me once a month for a group Zoom chat, and can request three backing tracks each month.
Level 3 gives you all the above plus a free lesson once a month, and access to all my backing tracks.
You can find me on Patreon at
/ thefiddlechannel
2. BOOKS
I have eight fiddle tuition books published by Schott, all widely available from the publisher, from Amazon, and many other outlets. All come with audio tracks illustrating the tunes and exercises.
Exploring Jazz Violin
Beginning Jazz Violin
Discovering Rock Violin
Exploring Folk Fiddle
Exploring Klezmer Fiddle
Hungarian Fiddle Tunes
French Fiddle Tunes
Exploring Country and Bluegrass Fiddle
You can order from
bit.ly/31ZWmgm
3. VIDEO SUBSCRIPTION COURSES
I have three video subscription courses
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MUSIC GURUS- Exploring Jazz Violin. Based on my Schott book
Parts 1 and 2 are each £26 for 26 lessons, covering the first and second halves of the book
Part 1; tidd.ly/3SwHGhb
Part 2 tidd.ly/3SwHGhb
MUSIC GURUS Discovering Rock Violin. . Based on my Schott book
£35 for 46 lessons
tidd.ly/3SwHGhb
MUSIC GURUS Exploring Country and Bluegrass Fiddle. Based on my Schott book. 31 lessons for £31.99
tidd.ly/3SwHGhb
ACADEMY OF FOLK
Includes a folk fiddle primer course, with introductions to basic techniques and concepts plus an Irish Fiddle Course and Scottish fiddle course. A monthly sub of $9.99 gives access to all lessons
academyoffolk....
4. WEBSITE
My website is probably the most extensive and detailed summary of fiddle styles on the web, as evidenced by the range of top hits on Google for many fiddle styles.
www.fiddlingaround.co.uk
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TO REQUEST PDF’S, or ask any questions, CONTACT ME AT
haighchris@hotmail.com
Пікірлер: 15
Speechless what you have done..very clearly and easy to understand..you are the best teacher
@johnmc3862
2 жыл бұрын
Your comment saved my life.
@FURAACE78
2 ай бұрын
I couldn't agree more! &Thank you so much, Chris 🥰💝🙏
thank you I have wondered about these things for years
Hey Chris! Great to see you here! I had a couple of lessons with you in London ... about two decades ago! Gosh time flies!
@TheFiddleChannel
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Paulo, great to hear from you! Where are you living now?
@paedusan
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheFiddleChannel just sent you an email.
La leçon est trés bien! 🔥
Good
Really nice condensed ‘how to improvise’ lesson here with some brilliant tips, standard stuff plus a little of your own personal approach but not so much there’s any danger of turning your channel into a a school of Chris Haig impersonators. Working from easy to hard (maybe you could have started with pentatonic as the simplest but then as a squeezeboxer myself maybe more violinists are familiar with scales). I always think of the climbdown at the end of the penultimate line as being a brief excursion into the key of C major before the final cadence takes you back into the home key of E minor. The chords Em E♭7 Dm D♭7 C could be thought of as a I VI II V turnaround in C major as they are all substitutes for those chords, III ♭III II ♭II I in C.
@TheFiddleChannel
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Matt. The C major idea is an interesting one, and I'll give it a go!
Very talented but I just don’t get jazz!
@Badgermanpeveril
3 жыл бұрын
I have never heard any jazz that floats my boat, I have a friend who plays lots of jazz but he can’t sell it to me. I admire the players.
@johnmc3862
2 жыл бұрын
Cool, jazz isn’t for you.
@johnmc3862
2 жыл бұрын
@@Badgermanpeveril Why are you commenting on this video then?