A Jazz book for Solo Violin. Includes music by Stephane Grappelli Jean-Luc Ponty and Joe Venuti as well as Swing and Blues. Includes substantial notes on jazz melody rhythm harmony improvisation phrasing and so on as well as variations for pieces which have been recorded by several players. Ideal for the intermediate Violinist who is developing an interest in Jazz.

Violin Play-Along Volume 36-Violin Play-Along Volume 36: Hot Jazz will help you play your favourite Hot Jazz songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music listen to the CD to hear how the Violin should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. With the melody and lyrics included in the book you may also choose to sing along. Chord symbols are provided should you wish to elaborate on the melody. The audio CD is playable on any CD player and also enhanced so Mac and PC users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch.

Learn to improvise in the Gypsy Jazz style. Suitable even for violinists who have never improvised before this method covers specific key aspects of the Gypsy jazz Violin style as made famous by French jazz violinist StephaneGrappelli who played with Gypsy jazz Guitar player Django Reinhardt. The techniques in this book are presented sequentially and the underlying music theory is introduced on a 'need to know' basis.Getting IntoGypsy Jazz Violin includes charts of classic swing tunes such as Avalon The Sheik of Araby and After You've Gone and includes online audio featuring authentic accompaniment tracks and modelViolin performances. Because the Gypsy jazz Violin style maintains common elements of traditional classical Violin techniques such as vibrato and shifting the book is a perfect vehicle for the classical violinist to learn toimprovise without having to change their general approach to the instrument.? Any intermediate or advanced violinist can learn to improvise in the Gypsy jazz Violin style.? Perfectly suited toclassically trained violinists because the Gypsy jazz Violin style is closely related to traditional classical Violin techniques.? Includes charts of classic swing tunes such as Avalon The Sheik of Araby and AfterYou've Gone.? The 21 lessons are carefully sequenced to introduce key components of the Gypsy jazz Violin style.? Includes online audio with sample solos and exercises in addition to authentic Gypsy jazzGuitar accompaniment tracks.

Develop jazz solos using melodic fragments from traditionalFiddle tunes. These Fiddle etudes are also suitable forMandolin Banjo Guitar and other traditional instruments. 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.Another great addition to the Berklee Press collection.

Instrumental Play-Along-Solo arrangements of a dozen jazz blues tunes are featured in this collection for beginning to intermediate instrumentalists.It features online access to audio demonstration tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound and so you can sound great while playing along with the backing tracks!Songs include Basin Street Blues C-Jam Blues Freddie Freeloader Night Train One for Daddy-O The Swingin' Shepherd Blues Tenor Madness and more.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 thatallows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

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.

With Online Audio-As a continuation of the first volume in this series this lesson is designed for upper middle school and high school string students. It introduces easy optional chord theory only AFTER the student has experienced improvisingwith chords aurally. Three basic concepts that are pre-requisites to advanced jazz improvising are presented: solo development modes and inner melodies.

A complete study and reference book Jazz Violin Studies gives string players experience with rhythmic concepts bowing styles syncopation and other jazz Violin effects. This book includes 'licks' of variouslengths. The play-along stereo recording has select examples played at various speeds. Includes access to online audio.

Internationally renowned authors musicians and recording artists Frank Villafranca and Andrew D. Gordon of The Super Groovers have composed a collection of grooves and melodies in the Smooth Jazz Genre creating an exciting supplemental jazz study series for beginner intermediate and advanced jazz students and musicians.After releasing their first CD Supergroovin which received world wide airplay they recognized a need in the music publishing business for a series of books on contemporary improvising within the 'Smooth Jazz' genre. Andrew composed and recorded all the rhythm tracks used in thisbook. In their opinion the melodies were so catchy they couldn't resist developing them into completed songs.Mainline Connection Villefranche?sur-Mer and You're The Only One In My Life are a few featured on their second CD Mainline Connection.The smooth jazz grooves in this 50 page book feature a variety of contemporary rhythm section styles including RandB Jazz Funk Top 40 Rock Gospel Hip Hop and Latin. These stylistic influences are frequently associated with smooth jazz. Popular artists in this genre include The Super Groovers David Sanborn Eric Marienthal Kenny G David Benoit Dave Koz Tom Scott Gerald Albright Candy Dulfer Wilton Felder Boney James Chris Botti Chuck Mangione Sade George Benson Peter White Lee Ritenour Earl Klugh Larry Carlton Jeff Lorber Brian Culbertson George Duke Paul Hardcastle Joe Sample Spyro Gyra Pat Metheny Four Play The Yellow Jackets and The Rippingtons. We suggest that you become acquainted with as many of these artists as possible.On each of the 20 tracks the groove is separated into 3 melodic ideas. Each melodic idea (example or riff) is played first by the Violin with the groove followed by just the rhythm section groove without the Violin. The 1st example is usually the easiest the 2nd slightly harder and the 3rd the most difficult.The Super Groovers were very fortunate to have violinist extraordinaire Christian Howes perform and record the Violin examples in the book.Versions for each

Etude n°21 (Medium) - Etude n°22 (Bright blues) - Etude n°23 (Ballad) - Etude n°24 (Slow ballad) - Etude n°25 (Medium ballad) - Etude n°26 (Bright swing tempo) - Etude n°27 (Moderately) - Etude n°28 (Fast) - Etude n°29 (Medium ballad) - Etude n°30 (Dixieland tempo) - Etude n°31 (Moderately) - Etude n°32 (Ballad) - Etude n°33 (Moderately) - Etude n°34 (Jazz waltz) - Etude n°35 (Medium swing) - Etude n°36 (Medium swing) - Etude n°37 (Ballad) - Etude n°38 (Moderately) - Etude n°39 (Jazz waltz) - Etude n°40 (Ballad)

'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 ...

Violin Play-Along Volume 15-This volume of the Violin Play-Along Series will help you play some of the best jazz standards performed by Stephane Grappelli quickly and easily. Just follow the music listen to the online audio tracks to hear how the violin should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. With the melody and lyrics included in the book you may also choose to sing along. Chord symbols are provided should you wish to elaborate on the melody. 

Etude n°1 (Moderately) - Etude n°2 (Bright) - Etude n°3 (Medium swing tempo) - Etude n°4 (Bright swing tempo) - Etude n°5 (Fast) - Etude n°6 (Bright swing tempo) - Etude n°7 (Medium blues) - Etude n°8 (Bright swing tempo) - Etude n°9 (Ballad) - Etude n°10 (Ballad) - Etude n°11 (Fast) - Etude n°12 (Medium swing tempo) - Etude n°13 (Ballad) - Etude n°14 (Bright blues) - Etude n°15 (Bright blues) - Etude n°16 (Medium swing tempo) - Etude n°17 (Medium blues) - Etude n°18 (Bright swing tempo) - Etude n°19 (Moderately) - Etude n°20 (Medium swing tempo)