Here’s a quick introductory lesson on the expressive qualities that playing electric violin with distortion from your amp or an effect pedal brings to your musical pallet. Bonus: Distortion Violin Primer: Learn about adding this rich and expressive texture to your playing.
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BVC All Audio Tracks in One Place
Here’s all the audio track play-alongs from the whole Blues Violin Course in one place. Note: These things vary from browser to browser and computer to computer, but if you’d like to download any of these audio files onto your computer or mobile device, try right clicking, or control>clicking
BVC All Fingering Charts
Here is all the fingerboard charts we used in the whole Blues Violin Course on one page for you. Feel free to print these out for easy reference. Blues Scales A Blues: Box Blues, Low Down Blues, Bug Blues, Back-Tie Blues, Brother Blues, Bop Blues (Alt tuning) B Blues: BB
How To Make Your Own ITSO Tracks
Asked, suggested, requested by a member… How can you make your own ITSO (In-The-Style-Of) tracks? It’s really not that hard or technical really. There is two ways to go about it for your own uses really… Create them on the fly with a LOOPER and some electronic EFFECTS, or Pre-arrange
Best of Blues Violin Course
Hey there! Here’s the public highlights of my Blues Violin Course that began back in April of 2017. Each lesson of the course has a dozen lesson elements or more of things like: learning the bass line to the song, melody tutorials (by ear, eye and reading), harmony and chord
BVC The Monday Blues
Song #11 in our Blues Violin Course gets much Jazzier with the “west coast” sound of T-Bone Walker! Intro to the lesson: “In-Between” “Passing” Chords, the “Climb,” Arpeggios, Leading Tones… we are going deeper on this one! Performance video: Song Form: melody 2x, solo 2x, melody 1x Play-along
BVC The Un-Ethical Blues
Song #10 in our Blues Violin Course heads into the Countrified Blues side of things with a tune in-the-style-of harmonica icon Little Walter. Have fun! Intro to the lesson: “Train” beat, special ending, no chordal instruments, and more. Performance video: Song Form: melody 2x, solo 2x, melody 1x