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July 24, 2005 at 8:58 PM

Not much time to talk today, I decided to take a short break from studying jazz and focus on Bach, I want to finish the g min adagio by october, this was part of the goals I have set for myself this year.

Kudos to Carla who is able to play tchaikovsky, no small accomplishment there. I often wonder what it would be like to play like that. Even though I am too poor to afford lessons, I decided I will try to see if i can take 1 lesson a month, I cant stand trying to figure out spiccato and all those off the string stunt-violin tricks all on my own anymore. I think im going to ask Chris Howes to teach me this time. He is a great jazz violinist and I have been watching him play with Paul Brown's band for like 20 years. Last time a I talked to Paul, he said Chris was doing lectures at the berkley school of music. Even though Chris is a great jazz violinist, he was actually classically trained and played the mendelssohn at age 16 with the columbus symphony. (Paul is himself a massively talented musical genius who happens to play the guitar)

Other than that, I was enjoying this thread at maestronet about the messiah strad...

...that and I may already be a hilton!

cheers
scott (muggle violinist)
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You play jazz on violin? Is it fun? Can you play most jazz songs on there? Sorry for the questions, I'm planning on learning jazz on the violin and I'm looking to learn more about it.
Scott, I'm very impressed with all that you've learned to do without lessons. Bravo!
I dont really play jazz on violin yet, right now Im playing jazz guitar but what I do on guitar I will convert to violin. I know Ill never be a great violinist but I hope to someday create transcriptions of jazz tunes for the violin with solos included

One day I hope to perform with a violinist playing classical, jazz transcriptions and original compositions that I wrote.

You should get the real book, if you do a search at amazon.com look for the real book. You can read the melodies and then later you will need to learn the scale and arpeggios relationship to the chords listed.

I can only play a few of the tunes so far, maybe 30 or so.