Jazz Violin Etudes Pentatonic Licks Tricks

Does improvisation intimidate you?

Are you a classical violinist that wants to try jazz or gypsy jazz?

Jazz Violin Etudes: Pentatonic Licks & Tricks has practical pentatonic patterns that can be used for your next creative solo!

The pentatonic scale is a five-note scale that can be found in almost any style of music. The idea of pentatonic scales is simple, but in terms of improvisation, they can get as complicated as you need them to be.

Pentatonics can be found in the solos of jazz legends such as Stéphane Grappelli, Jean-Luc Ponty, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis.

Violinists can use pentatonic scale ideas for improvising in modern genres. Pentatonic scales are not a complete method for improvisation, but a tool to be used along with other improvisational concepts.

This is an exercise book that is useful for INTERMIDIATE to ADVANCED-LEVEL violinists who are comfortable reading in various keys. Exercises are presented from one octave to three octave scales.

Jazz violin does not have to be hard, it just needs to be taken one step at a time. Studying pentatonics on the violin can take you one step closer to your improvisation goals!

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