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Member Spotlight:Michael Cormican
@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"
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Well thank you both so much, although the attention is slightly embarrassing. I started putting serious time and effort into jazz violin at the beginning of pandemic lockdown in 2020. I’ve spent different amounts of time with various online tutors, but still felt that progress was slow and somewhat directionless. That changed big- time on meeting Matt last November. Although learning jazz violin for me is a marathon rather than a sprint, I know I’ve improved more in the past five months than in the previous five years. Thanks again.
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Lick of the week 3
So here's my version in an adventurous C major😂. I've tagged on a bit of augmented triad stuff. Hope it works!
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Don’t know about big leaps Matt but I certainly feel more confident. Much of that is down to your teaching. Thank you
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Cheers Viktor
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What you working on this weekend?
What is everyone practising right now? For some people, the weekend is the best time to get some practise in (not for me, I have a toddler at home so if I'm not gigging, I’m out at the play park!) If you are using the weekend to get some practise in, what are you up to? Tell us in the comments!
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Business accounts. Yugh🙄
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Lovely playing Viktor. Congrats on new violin.
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Whole Tone Scale Practise
I'm working on getting the Whole Tone Scale into my playing at the moment. You might have seen this on my instagram or YT channel. Im making exercises, which are in the Classroom for all paid members. I'm also spending a bit of time just "playing". This is an important part of it all. Exercises to get things into our muscle memory. "just playing" with intention, to try and make it fluid and more improvisational. Here I am trying stuff out on a ii-V7-I backing track in C , mainly focusing on playing in and around C on all the chords apart from the G7. Im finding some interesting stuff. Mainly enjoying when I can successfully play an A aug triad musically over the G7.
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Tonight's group practice on the augmented triad/whole tone scale was so interesting. This week I've been trying to get to grips with patterns based on G7 aug chord. Been finding it a struggle to really get it under the fingers. Just removing the 7th and playing the G aug triad, as we did tonight, makes it a whole lot easier to hear and to play. Then adding an A aug triad brings the 7th back in to the G in a sense. Those little triad patterns we did are so effective. I find this approach much easier. Thanks Matt.
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Transcription Labs
Hi all just planning next months Transcription Lab for VIP members. (Transcription Labs are where we get the chance to perform a solo or section of a solo that we are working on for the group. From memory and along to the recording) Pick the one that works for you best but maybe let me know in the comments if you could also do one of these others. If you fancy joining us, just level up to VIP tier on here below! https://www.skool.com/jazzviolin/plans
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14th 6pm would work for me as well. 10 am is not a civilised time for any musician to be up and about.
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@michael-cormican-3099
Hi. I'm Irish but have lived and worked in Mallorca for 34 years. II work as a musician in other genres, but really love trying to play jazz.
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