Tell me what tune you are working on right now! I'm learning some nice standards for a gig coming up. Estrellita Ms Otis Regrets (courtesy of @Viktor Houf) Thou Swell Willow Weep For Me. When I'm bulk learning tunes for a gig I try to spend each day going through a new one till I sort of know it. Once I have my set of tunes "buskable", I listen to different versions and mess around with them trying to find my own way of laying the melody. I always try to work out the harmony by ear but then check it against the ireal book changes to see if how I'm doing/if there are different ways of playing the chords. Which tunes are you working on?

Ghosting is where we hardly play the note. Its like a breath. Generally done at the tip of the bow and an easy way of understanding why is by looking at how guitar players strum. When you watch guitarist playing a groove, in any style of music, the movements they make always seem a lot more rigorous that the rhythm that you hear coming out. They are often playing constantly up and down, subdividing the bar and only accenting the notes or chords that they choose to. Ghosting on the violin is our version of that. It helps us have motion to the lines we play. It’s not that that every jazz violinists will always just play constant ghosted notes, but most jazz violinists will have some element of ghosted notes in their playing. It just differs how much depending on the style that they play in. Check out my free course on jazz bowing in the classroom if you want to know more!

1. INTRODUCE YOURSELF Copy this format and comment below: • your name • where you’re from • your musical background • what you’re trying to achieve in your playing 2. MAKE YOUR FIRST POST This could be: • a jazz violin video you like • a question about learning jazz • or something you’ve found helpful to practice 3. START LEARNING Head to the classroom. There are a number of free courses in there for you to start learning. Whatever your level, I can guarantee there will be something new in there for you. Improv, Bowing, Learning Tunes, Chromatics, a listening list (for members who have posted enough to get to level 2) If you really want to progress, you can get hold of the larger paid courses in there too “Jazz Violin Fundamentals”, “10 Tunes You Must Know”, “46 Lines”, “Mastering Chromatics” BONUS There’s a poll below this post. Let me know what you’re most interested in improving in your playing, it helps me shape the material in here

https://youtu.be/_M0Rgji92zE?is=wCyvKuFOnM8zErCp Could it get possibly better than this? dont think so. Pure Joy...

@Michael Cormican has been a member of here from the beginning, we met in Spain at a Django style workshop. It's been great to see Michael making progress with everything since we first met, lots of changes in his sound as well as his ability to improvise over jazz sequences. Michael often takes advantage of the discussion board to post his progress and take part in the weekly lick challenges too. Here is a little repost of his version on last weeks "Lick Of The Week"