Jazz Violin Lesson | Top Secret Improvisation Tricks

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

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[@tomasnovak3744]

So good! These exercises give me the brainburn :) Thank you, very useful

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

Awesome glad to hear- thanks for the feedback!

[@robhersh1868]

Hi Chris good job.concise interesting easy to pick up and learn.

[@maryleecaesarscowboys]

This is a very inspiring and useful lesson, thanks Christian!

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

Glad you liked it Mary! Thank you!

[@noubend8368]

Very nice Christian, thank you...

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

My pleasure. Thank you:)

[@edsegalowitz5495]

Hi Chris, one of these " I'm stuck" questions. I have no confusion when it comes to playing the harmonic minor scale phrasing as the notes are the same going either way. But in the melodic minor the notes vary. But as you know the 6 th and 7th notes in the melodic minor scale are a half step higher when ascending than when descending. So when you refer to playing the melodic minor scale , do you mean that we are to use the notes for the ascending minor scale or the descending minor scale? . Or are the notes to be played in the context of whether the phrase i'm playing is ascending or descending phrase? Any insight on this would be appreciated. Thanks :).

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

Hi Ed- yes the melodic minor scale in this specific context is used in a different way for jazz. It does not change on the way down in this particular context.

[@edsegalowitz5495]

Got it. Thanks. 😃

[@channelphongsakpanta1794]

Good

[@heatherlewin]

That helped a lot! Thanks

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

so glad thank you Heather!

[@ÁlvarLlusáDamiani]

Very useful! Thanks!

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

Happy to help! Thanks for commenting

[@zaurhaciyev6110]

Thanks very good

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

Glad you liked it thank you!

[@diannelovesyou]

Did you choose the keys Bb and G because Ebmaj7 is the IV of Bb and Emin the ii of D? How did you get this conclusion, couldn't you also have chosen Eb and say G? Is this just a matter of taste/external context

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

There are a few ways to answer this, but "taste/external context" is one good answer for sure. But also the chords in this case share the same notes as the chords (E flat maj 7 #11 and E mi7 13) Someone told me "there is no such thing as a scale. there are only chord tones and notes in between". From this idea it makes sense to find the notes in a chord and then create any scale or line that navigates between them. Different choices simply yield different colors. FOr a longer discussion, join bootcamp!! :) christianhowes.com/csw_online/

[@diannelovesyou]

Yeah that makes sense, thanks!

[@ceciliacatarino392]

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[@DayneReedy]

A little confused - at first you said EbMA and Emin, but then you worked on Bb and DMA? I missed something.:(

[@bethyoungbloodviolin5876]

HI Dana, I'm trying to 'grok' the same thing, and am sure enjoying playing the note choices form the scales over the chords...but struggling to understand how to "get there' as far as understanding why we don't use a EbM scale over the EbM chord etc. ...and I think this is why I've never been able to sound "out' when I improvise...so something to learn here for sure?

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

Dana two things- 1) The chords 2) the related major scales for those chords chosen in this context. The focus of the video is the exercise itself ie voice leading two different scales. How to choose which scale for which chord is another topic I would reserve for other video. Hope this helps

[@DayneReedy]

Okay, so Bb is the related major scale for Eb? And D maj the the related major scale to the Em chord? Thanks Chris ! Sorry for being so slow to grasping this.

[@DayneReedy]

❤️

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

Dana Reedy yes!