What started out as a creative project inspired over a beer at an ASTA conference with my friend Martin Norgaard turned into a two year quest to develop a system for teaching string players how to play modern jazz. My goal with this book was to encourage violin and viola players to think more like guitar players, focusing on the convenient advantage we upper string players have of a one-octave frame that our hands form on the fingerboard.
Using this frame, we develop a visual and muscle awareness of the finger shapes of modes, diminished, augmented, whole tone scales and quartal harmony (4ths.) This frame approach allows us to easily transpose and “sideslip”, which is a game changer for jazz improvisation.
Includes transcriptions and analyses with Martin Norgaard of solos by Jean Luc Ponty and Zbigniew Seifert. |
