Swing Bowing Technique on Violin with Chris Haigh

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This course is based on the first part of Chris Haigh’s best-selling book Exploring Jazz Violin, and will get you playing jazz violin music and improvising in no time.

Chris is a pro violinist based in the UK. He's played with the likes of Alison Moyet, Bob Geldof and Morcheeba. He's also a world-renowned fiddle expert and educator.

In his series of jazz violin lessons, Chris starts out showing you very easy ways to improvise, which he's perfected over years of teaching and workshops with classical and folk players who break out into a sweat at the mere thought of improvisation!

Chris will show you the basics of Jazz Violin playing and covers:

- swing bowing
- different types of scales and finger patterns
- playing a head or melody
- varying and developing a melody
- using riffs or licks
- using major pentatonic and blues scales
- learning the styles of jazz violin greats such as Stephane Grappelli, Joe Venutti, Stuff Smith and Jean-Luc Ponty

Throughout the course, Chris will use several jazz melodies to demonstrate particular ideas and the course comes with backing tracks so you can play along and try your own ideas and improvisation.

Basic course requirements:
Limited Classical Theory needed
No Jazz Theory needed

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Brilliant lesson Chris Thanks.
After 50 years of straight fiddle playing you've made the penny drop for me 🎻🎶🎻🎶🎻🎶🎻

julesviolin

I have your book and these videos are a great addition. Though I've played for decades, I'm just getting immersed in jazz techniques. Love it!

janeinnoho

I LOVE swing fiddle. And while your video gives beginners a good start there is so much more that could be said of this unique style. Here are some thoughts I might mention:
> Obviously swung 8ths (in a 2-1 ratio), as you mention (you could think of it as a 'skipping' rhythm).
> Lots of chromaticism. In approach and passing notes, for example.
> Lots of syncopation.
> Beyond 'ghost notes', deliberatly skipping some notes, to let the music breathe.
> Liberal use of short slides and shifts (a 'shift' is kind of like a sudden slide).
> Use of off beat accents, where you really dig with the bow to get that 'crunchy' sound. Yes, the sound classical violinists work so hard to avoid - LOL.

davivify