Getting Into Gypsy Jazz Violin
Sobre aquest llibre
Learn to improvise in the Gypsy jazz violin style even if you have never improvised before. The style is closely associated with French jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli, who played with Gypsy jazz guitar player Django Reinhardt. Each lesson in the book covers specific key aspects of the Gypsy jazz violin style. The techniques are presented sequentially, and the underlying music theory is introduced on a 'need to know' basis.
Getting Into Gypsy Jazz Violin includes charts of classic swing tunes such as Avalon, The Sheik of Araby, and After You've Gone and includes access to online audio featuring authentic accompaniment tracks and model violin performances. Because the Gypsy jazz violin style maintains common elements of traditional classical violin techniques such as vibrato and shifting, the book is a perfect vehicle for the classical violinist to learn to improvise without having to change their general approach to the instrument.
• Any intermediate or advanced violinist can learn to improvise in the Gypsy jazz violin style.
• Perfectly suited to classically trained violinists because the Gypsy jazz violin style is closely related to traditional classical violin techniques.
• Includes charts of classic swing tunes such as Avalon, The Sheik of Araby, and After You've Gone.
• The 21 lessons are carefully sequenced to introduce key components of the Gypsy jazz violin style.
• Includes access to online audio with sample solos and exercises in addition to authentic Gypsy jazz guitar accompaniment tracks.
Sobre l'autor
Performer, recording artist and educator, Martin Norgaard, is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Music and
Human Learning at The University of Texas at Austin. Martin Norgaard has performed in Austin & Nashville
and throughout the country with his own jazz trio, the acoustic fusion band Acoustic Room, and with diverse
artists including Buddy Spicher, Will Taylor and Strings Attached, Eliza Gilkyson and Sara Hickman. Norgaard
taught jazz and commercial strings at Belmont University and Vanderbilt University in Nashville for six years
and was director of the Belmont Jazz String Quartet and Jazz String Septet, featured at IAJE 2001, MENC 2002
and ASTA 2003. Norgaard holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in jazz performance from William Paterson
University, and Queens College in New York, where he studied with Rufus Reid, Hal Galper, Jimmy Heath and
others. Norgaard is a frequent clinician at state and national conventions including ASTA, TMEA, OMEA,
IMEA, GMEA, MENC, and IAJE. Additionally he is a frequent clinician at summer workshops such as the IAJE
Teacher Training Institute, the South Carolina Suzuki Institute, the Santa Fe Suzuki Institute, the Augusta
Heritage Festival and Vanderbilt’s International Fiddle School.
In addition to his Jazz Fiddle Wizard and Jazz Fiddle Wizard Junior books, Martin is the author of Mel Bay’s
transcriptions of Bonnie Rideout’s Scottish fiddle record Kindred Spirits, Aubrey Haynie’s Doin’ My Time, Mel
Bay’s French Tangos for Violin and The Greatest Stars of Bluegrass Music (fiddle edition). One of Martin’s own
solos is transcribed in the Fiddle 2000 Anthology, also published by Mel Bay.
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