The Violin Improv Studio
Private
1 member
$49/month
Stop running scales without knowing what to do with them. No one gave bowed-string players the rules - which note falls on the beat, where the half step goes, why one scale runs into the next. Rules are just the beginning - learn to create endless lines.
Informed by Barry Harris’s Creation Theory, you’ll learn:
✓ What to play over D7, Em7♭5, Cmaj6, D♭dim7 - or any chord
✓ 12-bar blues, substitutions, rhythm changes, progressions across jazz, folk, country, and pop
✓ How Parker, & Powell, built lines & how to create your own
✓ Solo improvisation, accompanied or unaccompanied
✓ Scales, chords, rhythm, chromaticism, & voice leading as a language
✓ Feedback on uploaded videos
✓ Repertoire creation
✓ Live Zoom classes - play or audit
This is not a bag of licks to repeat. Understand how lines are built, invent your own, and play music that belongs to you in any setting.
Beginners to virtuosos - ALL welcome. Violin is the focus but the work applies to viola and cello.
Let’s play.
—Kenny Butler
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