Challenge! Play this line and post it. This one is like a little cell that you can easily expand or just use on its own. There are 4 levels to this challenge, you can pick which one is most doable for you right now…. 1- Exactly the same as myself, in C Major 2- Try it in a few different keys 3- Start like I do and finish it off a little differently. 4- improvise over a backing track and use this line in your improv My 46 lines course in the classroom has a number of lines that work in a similar way (they are a little more straight forward and all in G) all transcribed and explained fully. Get hold of it here https://www.skool.com/jazzviolin/classroom

Turns out the internet here isn’t going to allow me to give a good lesson. (I’m actually at the Garlic Farm on the Isle of Wight which some of you may know or be about to get to know). I’m going to do tonight lesson on Thursday night 6pm UK time instead. Hope that will work for you! That’s Thursday 14th 6pm UK Time. Anyone in Premium who wants to come and join us, just let me know! Changed it all in the calendar for you too. Matt

ok this song is one of coolest i´ve tried so far. the groove of this thing is just crazy good. thx @Kaia K for some sheetnotes, that helped a lot! now i cant at least play the whole thing once through 🤓challenging, where did the weekend go? 😵

Your expectations for yourself and your playing shift forward with every small amount of progress you make. Well they do for me. I’ve gotten incrementally better at jazz and the violin in general since I first started putting real work in. But I’ve rarely had the hindsight to think back to what I expected of myself last year or even last month. I’m trying to think back now to when I first wanted to work on my tone about 5 years ago. Doing this really helps me realise that I’ve come a long way in my playing over the years and that if I heard myself as I play now back then I would be pretty happy. Comparing yourself to yourself and not others is the only way to actually get a feeling of accomplishment. I’d implore everyone to try and do this!

Challenge! Play this line and post it. I think I play something like this 100 times on every gig… There are 4 levels to this, you can pick which one is most doable for you right now…. 1- Exactly the same as myself, in C Major 2- Try it in a few different keys 3- Start like I do and finish it off a little differently. 4- improvise over a backing track and use this line in your improv My 46 lines course in the classroom has a number of lines that work in a similar way (they are a little more straight forward and all in G) all transcribed and explained fully. Get hold of it here https://www.skool.com/jazzviolin/classroom