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Grappelli VS Stuff
I made a pretty silly video last week. Trying to work out who is the greatest out of Grappelli and Stuff Smith. I even used the power of this community to help work it out. My life is weird but extremely fun!
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@Matt Holborn haven't found the Db blues but found him doing it again here! https://youtu.be/os8EoPPNj5A?t=2068&is=1Rbc-1CmubAAuEaB
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Oh wait wrong timestamp, it's 35:30 ish https://youtu.be/os8EoPPNj5A?t=2129&is=d0un2KYhZKK0ejXR
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Greatest Living Jazz Violinist?
Give me your favourites still out there. For me it’s a few Tcha Limberger Jean Luc Ponty Ola Kvernberg
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Really love Dom Ingham's playing and his album. Incredibly expressive and love the folk influence right out in front a lot of the time. Currently when people ask who my favourite violinist is, he's my answer. I love hearing influences of other styles seeping into jazz when done well, or rather styles of jazz that overlap with others - love that about Tcha Limberger's playing too Really like Zach Brock as well, in particular the more acoustic sounding small band stuff. (I feel like I haven't quite acquired the taste for electric violin yet, especially when it has lots of effects on and you can't really tell it's a violin any more, but maybe I'll get there!) Amazing to have interviews with all these on your podcast btw, what a resource! When are you gonna do more podcast episodes btw, or have you run out of people to ask?!
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Lick Of The Week
Challenge! Record your version of this, depending on what’s doable for you, either… In the original key (F major) In a few other keys Inside an improvisation over a standard TRANSCRIPTION IN THE SNIPPET COURSE IN THE CLASSROOM I took inspiration from a Sonny Stitt solo I started transcribing recently but I used his ideas to create something a little nicer to play on the violin. Try it out! Look forward to seeing what you come up with!
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Too hot for this sort of thing. Not quite got the changes to this one fully down yet but enjoying sticking this lick on the turnaround! Gonna work a bit more on blending it in and also gonna have a go at doing it in more places a bit more "scientifically" otherwise I get carried away
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@Viktor Houf London is hot but I'm sure where you are is hotter so that's fair 😂 thanks for the kind words!
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Paul Desmond’s solo on ‘Rising Sun’ - Brubeck Quartet
This solo is incredibly fun for violin. The heavy, almost glissando-like vibrato is super engaging and Desmond’s ability to just come up with these overarching melodies and lines is something you just don’t see in all musicians. Here’s my crack at it. I’m a new member, and happy to be in the community! If you all know of some other great ballad solos like this please suggest them to me! And overall, how should a jazz violinist best approach a ballad solo? I’d love to hear some tips on how you all improvise this kind of stuff.
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@Tamsin Haggis my suggestion for when you start feeling like jazz is all about speed and cleverness - go and listen to some Chet Baker, or Kind of Blue era Miles, or BB king playing the blues with about 2 notes at a time (the list goes on!). Musicality has no minimum speed limit or flashiness requirements! I've also spend a lot of time listening to and playing salsa (Willie Colon etc) which tends to have solo sections just going round I and V, which has helped me internalise more the idea that an iconic solo doesn't necessarily have to be anything more flashy than a couple of notes in a rhythmic statement, played with intention and confidence. (Doesn't stop me often slipping into trying to play flashier than my fingers know how)
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Practise Club Challenge
The line that we worked on in practise club is in the Classroom in the Etudes and Exercises course. Here is my challenge for you guys, use what we did in the session tonight either scientifically or in a solo, like I show you in this video
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@Otis Ragen-Andrews https://youtu.be/RROrb1W47SM?is=MveMsRnQBfZ9whj1 Recognised that count in ha
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