Improvising on the violin and discovering FREEDOM…
Do you want to improvise on the violin to break free from the constraints of classical music?
Do you want to swing like Stéphane Grappelli, but you don’t know where to start?
I have good news: jazz violin improvisation can be learned!
Before going any further, I am offering you the JAZZ VIOLIN KIT for FREE, which includes:
- access to our community platform for jazz violinists.
- 3 lessons extracted from my method “The new way to learn Swing on the violin”
- The PDF “Improvisation for beginner violinists”
- 4 steps to start improvising on the violin and progressively get into the swing
- numerous tutorials to go even further…
If you’re on this website, you probably have many questions about learning improvisation on the violin or other string instruments, especially if you would like to play jazz violin.
You are already classical trained, but you feel like you are not able to make the connection between what you have learned and how to improvise , and when you try to improvise you have the impression of not knowing anything …
Or maybe you can play traditional music, but you don’t have the best technique to improvise in jazz ….
Learning to improvise on the violin is progressive work, as well as classical music and other world music.
This is why I created the blog Learn jazz violin : to help you and guide you through this mysterious world that attracts you … I wish to make it more concrete and gradually clarify the gray areas that remain! I wish to share with you the experience I have gained since I decided to learn jazz violin after years of classical training.
I invite you to consult the first violin free jazz lesson that I put on this site, which allows you to discover swing on the violin and ghost notes.
And here are some explanations on my background as a violinist!
DO YOU WANT TO TAKE JAZZ VIOLIN LESSONS?
MY PEDAGOGY
For many years now, I have been teaching jazz with one focus: IMPROVISATION. I want you to find the freedom to be in true spontaneity and create music in the moment.
I also want you to understand the foundation of this music: SWING.
That is why my method includes rhythmic exercises used by drummers, adapted for the violin. From there, we start to build our musical language…
In this video, you can already get a glimpse of my teaching style. This JAZZ VIOLIN LESSON for starting swing on the violin, viola, or cello, covers bowing and ghost notes.
In jazz, it is essential to use the fingers of the right hand correctly to have a good attack, and it is also important to muffle the sound with the fingers of the left hand to create rhythm, just like guitarists do.
To go further, I offer:
– ONLINE COURSES AND SHEET MUSIC
– ONLINE GROUP LESSONS
– WORKSHOPS
– INDIVIDUAL LESSONS
To find out more, click on the link below:
For other instrumentalists who would start jazz without a classical background, it might seem paradoxical … asking for scores to improvise …
But … For us, students of classical conservatories, learning entire programs of the greatest works of the repertoire … what could be more normal…
MY BACKGROUND : FROM CLASSICAL VIOLIN TO JAZZ VIOLIN
When I was four years old I watched a concert of my mother, a pianist, playing with a violinist. I actually remember deciding that very day that I wanted to be a violinist! So I began studying at a conservatory for youth, and then later at the college level I graduated from the conservatory of Friborg (Switzerland), and then Geneva. I was lucky to have excellent teachers, as well as the experience of playing in good youth orchestras.
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Do you want to learn jazz violin and get results quickly?
Here is… my jazz violin method!
As you may have gathered, I first had a career as a classical musician, then I managed to reinvent myself in jazz… But all of this didn’t come from nowhere!
I studied jazz violin. I took lessons for years with the greatest masters of jazz violin… Pierre Blanchard, Didier Lockwood, Johan Renard…
Many musicians who start music directly with jazz find themselves very independently transcribing solos they love by ear. Being used to sheet music and conservatories, the idea wouldn’t have even occurred to me! Someone had to suggest it. It makes sense, I don’t come from that world…
I loved jazz so much that I absolutely wanted to succeed. I studied jazz for years until I found my own language for improvising…
That’s when I became a violin teacher myself. I have given masterclasses at several festivals, notably in Italy (Torino Jazz Festival, Chamois Festival, Perinaldo Festival), in the Netherlands (Grappelli-Django Camp), and I became a visiting professor at the Centre des Musiques Didier Lockwood.
I created this blog, LEARN JAZZ VIOLIN, which you are currently browsing, and it quickly became number one on Google… I have gathered a large community that you are now a part of, with whom I regularly exchange ideas about jazz violin…
I then decided to create my own jazz violin method, inspired by my great mentors and by all my students from all walks of life, of all ages, and from all over the world…!
This method is the result of many years of research, questioning, and understanding my students… This method has evolved in many ways to become what it is today: THE NEW WAY TO LEARN SWING ON THE VIOLIN.
Today, you can receive the JAZZ VIOLIN KIT for free at this link: