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Djangology
It is such a nice feeling when u start to learn a new song and couple of licks and tricks you´ve learned before just click and kind of fall into the place there. still sounds bit lame 🦙 therefore lets keep practicing 🖖🤓
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Thx @Matt Holborn .got still no idea how to treat the bridge properly in these songs.with just a simple chromatic shift from aflat to a, seems hard to come up with something interesting
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@Matt Holborn cool Will try that out
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New strings....?
When do people change strings? Just when they snap? Otherwise it feels like a pretty random choice/ difficult judgement to decide when the sound is my technique or due to the ' hard wear'
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Hi Nicola, from my point of view, it depends on couple of different things: *how much do u play *what kind of strings do u use/what do u want to get out of your violin STEEL core- definitely most durable, stay in tune, bright sparkling sound(e.g. Pirastro Chromcore) GUT core- supposed to have the ¨warmest¨ sound, lowest longevity, usually quite expensive, in my opinion not worth it(unless u playing some specific music on the side other than jazz/improv- e.g. baroque music), with these you just spend half of the time trying to get your instrument in tune SYNTHETIC core- something in between, nice full round sound and thx to the synthetic material more durable than gut strings(e.g. Dominants) I´ve spent many years playing the full-metal Pirastro, cca 6 months back I started playing with John Pearse Artiste Mezzo as i wanted to try something different and more appropriate for ¨fiddle¨playing. sound is nice but the JP strings reguire much more maintenance(keeping it always clean) than the steel ones. it´s an alchemy.... but if u havent changed your strings for lets say half a year and ur practicing regurarly, i would say its definitely time for a change hope this helps a bit 🤞
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Staying motivated
So this place is all about motivation. It can be difficult to keep your practise up when you don’t feel like there is anything to work towards so here are the top 3 things I do to kickstart my own playing. 1. Go to a jam. If I tell myself I will make it to a local session in the next week, it usually get me to try and learn some new tunes or brush up on tunes Iv been working on. 2. See a gig. Every time I see a local musician or famous international star play, as soon as they finish the first song I will be thinking about how I can improve or incorporate what I liked from the gig into my own music. 3. Listen to a whole album. This is the simplest one but it always helps me pluck up the courage to get the violin out and maybe work on something Iv just heard. BONUS. Post a video in here. Last week I posted a video in here of me practising Anthropology. I then posted a second one later in the day to see if I could get it sounding better in a few hours. It really helped me stay focused that day and I did feel like I made some progress with it. I urge anyone who is struggling to stay motivated to try this out! Matt
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when we´re talking about staying motivated to practice, for me, diversity is the key. e.g. after a couple of days of practicing something hard and strenuous, I just try to break the pattern and spend day or two playing jazz ballads working on my tone and on the ability of trying to say something meaningful with just a couple of notes
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One thing you think needs the most work in your playing?
We all have that achilles heel. The thing that we hear in recording so fourself that we dont like. Mine is my intonation. I can be in tune, when I practice slowly and with intent. However I often hear videos of myself playing gigs and I cringe. I have improved a lot with it over the years, even in the last few months. It's always there in the back of my mind though and if I had a magic wand, that would perhaps be the first thing on my list. There is no magic wand, just practise, which thankfully I do often enjoy. I work on it in small ways all the time, annoyingly, the ear improves much quicker than your fingers so I'm always chasing the next milestone in my improvement. This is an issue that I think we can all relate to, regardless of our goals. Whats yours? Let us know in the comments. If you fancy a little help with your own goals, Im taking on a few more 1-1 students. You can get hold of my 1-1 coaching programme in the classroom. Its a package of lessons with me with details lesson reports and plans with the aim of helping you achieve what you want to in your own playing.
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enhancing the jazz vocabulary, being more versatile
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Hey Matt thx, yeah you are right, slurs are still my nemesis , so far i´ve been enjoying playing as much as possible without them, as it gave me more oportunity to practice ghost notes and the swingfeel. now im working on Grappelli´s original Minor Swing solo so im trying to do all the slurs and stuff which should be there...still feels against the grain, but whatever, its just practice i guess...✌️✌️
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