A Step-by-Step Jazz Supplement for Classical Violin Students
This is the perfect violin supplement book to spice up your classes or recitals while exposing your students to jazz music.
The violin instruction for each song is completely compatible with popular classical violin methods, and you don't need any jazz experience to teach from this book!
Includes:
Standards such as “Ain’t Misbehavin,’” jazz classics such as Horace Silver’s “Song for My Father,” and “Orange Colored Sky,” which Nat King Cole made famous.
Violin instruction for each song is pedagogically compatible with popular classical violin methods.
At least one piece for each 1–5 level, including two duets - and there’s even a jazzy Christmas medley.
Note-for-note piano accompaniment and score written out for each song.
Audio recording by master violinist and jazz recording star Jeremy Cohen (of Quartet San Francisco fame) performing each piece to piano accompaniment.
Piano accompaniment-only tracks also included for students to practice with.
A simple, easy to understand ‘introduction to improvisation’ section that helps students explore and implement basic jazz concepts quickly - invaluable!
“Jazz Songs for the Student Violinist offers a step by step and user-friendly approach to playing jazz. Students learn tunes commonly found in the jazz canon and learn accessible improvisational techniques using rhythm, embellishment, and the blues. This book is a wonderful supplement to the Suzuki method!” — Matt Turner, Cellist, Jazz & Improvisational Music Department, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music
“This book is full of important information for any aspiring musician that would like to open their minds to the language of jazz and improvisation. With clear laid-out steps in learning how to play tunes, this book should set up all the important foundations for future roads in improvisation.” — Avi Friedlander, Director of the Barston Suzuki Center at the Music Institute of Chicago
“An excellent introduction for young violinists to the uniquely American art form of jazz and improv! The brief histories about some of our jazz greats are just wonderful. I wish this was around when my boys were learning to play – they would have LOVED it!” — Maureen Byrne, Senior Director, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
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