Improvise on a String Instrument with Zach Brock full course: bit.ly/35SewSU
Zach Brock is a Grammy Award-winning violinist and composer heralded as “the pre-eminent improvising violinist of his generation."
Zach is steeped in the traditions of jazz, classical, world, and popular music, and has enjoyed finding new ways to fuse them while on tour with the likes of Snarky Puppy and Stanley Clarke.
In this course, Zach provides string players with a toolkit to take their playing beyond the traditional territory of strings. Zach shares the techniques and habits that got him off the page and led him to start experimenting on violin, as well as the practice hacks and exercises he now uses to stay sharp on the road. This course takes you quickly from the very basics of improvisation to mastering modes and gaining fluency. Zach discusses what you can learn from past masters like Stéphane Grappelli, Stuff Smith, and Zbigniew Seifert, as well as current innovators such as Christian Howes and Casey Driessen. He deconstructs techniques such as 'the chop' and explains how to attain 'natural distortion' on your instrument, as well as discussing the use of electronic effects with stringed instruments.
In This Course:
- Learning the Language of Improvisation
- Starting with a Song
- Toolkit for Improvement
- Recording, Listening and Keeping a Practice Journal
- Understanding harmony through melodic exercises
- Creative Scale Practice
- Advanced Scale Practice for Improvisation
- Modes
- Thinking Differently About Arpeggios
- Advanced Arpeggio Work
- Using Sevenths & Inversions
- Understanding Rhythm
- Groove & Time Feel
- Bowings
- Fingering Fluency
- Transcription and 'Role Playing'
- Natural' Distortion & Multiphonics
- Developing Your Vibrato Style
- Introducing Effects
- The Signal Chain
- Effect Types
- The Lingus Loop
- Looping Jam
Everything that Zach teaches won't compromise your classical or folk-fiddle techniques, it'll enhance them! After this course, you'll realise that your violin, viola or cello is practically a whole new instrument with loads of exciting new musical possibilities to explore.
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