Gigging Jazz Violinists - Share Your Wisdom

A question for those of you who are actually out playing jazz gigs.

What’s one thing you wish you’d known when you were starting out that you only really learned from playing live?

Maybe it’s something about playing with a band, something you wish you had started practising earlier, dealing with nerves, playing tunes you don’t know or just anything at all about learning jazz violin.

Whatever it is, drop it in the comments.

here’s mine

learning to improvise whilst looking at a chord chart is a different skill to learning to follow or be led along by the changes in your head and ear. Start practising this from day one and stop yourself from always looking at changes when you practise.

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Gigging Jazz Violinists - Share Your Wisdom