Improvise jazz on violin with a simple six-step method
Many string players come from a classical background which may not have taught them how to play by ear. While this can provide an excellent grounding in music, it doesn't teach you how to improvise, and often it's difficult for classically trained musicians to learn Jazz soloing.
Beginner Jazz Soloing For Violin is the perfect guide to bridge the gap. Devised by Buster Birch (visiting jazz professor at Trinity Conservatoire), this book teaches a creative method for improvisation that's been road-tested at hundreds of workshops.
Professor approved jazz violin soloing
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"This is a great resource, both for beginners and more advanced students (it's always good to go backwards!) Buster arranges this in a way that introduces ideas logically and slowly, yet still allows for creativity and invention."
Liam Noble, Professor of Jazz Piano at Birmingham Conservatoire & Trinity College of Music
"The music world has been waiting for a series like this to help release students (and their teachers) from any need to be fearful of musical creativity. In clear steps Buster has has de-mystified the first steps of an improviser's and a composer's craft."
Howard Moody, Composer (Glyndebourne, La Monnaie, Opéra national du Rhin, LSO, SCO, La Folia); ECM Recording Artist
Learn to improvise blues and jazz on violin from the ground up

Discover a systematic guide to improvisation by an award-winning musician and educator

Master the simple call and response method of composing improvised lines

Grow your skills through a well-conceived method that builds layer-on-layer

Improvise using the Minor Pentatonic scale

Learn how to easily transpose your ideas to any other key

Bonus: Free audio to download, so you can hear exactly how each example should sound

A simple six-step violin improvisation method that works every time

All the exercises in this book have been tried and tested in jazz workshops with both child and adult learners, producing astonishing results time and again. In 2017 the author's jazz school won the prestigious Will Michael Diploma Award for Jazz Education - a national award recognising "outstanding commitment to jazz education".

In Beginner Jazz Soloing For Violin the art of improvisation for beginners is broken down into six steps that guide students to become confident improvisers. You will become fully equipped to improvise a solo with confidence.

Learn to improvise on violin and create your own musical ideas

Having begun to improvise, you will also learn:

To play four specially written tunes that demonstrate how to turn improvised ideas into songs

How to compose your own riff blues tune

Taking beginner jazz violin soloing further

Learn to play jazz solo lines over the ii V I progression - the most common chord sequence in Jazz

Learn violin articulation techniques that add emotion and flair to your jazz solos, such as legato, staccato, slurs, ghost notes and more...

Audio and backing tracks

Beginner Jazz Soloing For Violin contains FREE audio examples and backing tracks. You'll hear each idea in action and every articulation clearly played for you to copy. It truly is a one-stop-shop on your path to jazz improvisation

Buy Beginner Jazz Soloing For Violin and get creative right now.

Today is the day you learn to improvise!