They are amazingly helpful and will answer your questions by phone. While I always welcome questions (in the comments below) I recommend the Electric Violin Shop to any bowed string players seeking help with amplification and gear. At least, that’s how I think of it.Įveryone wants to know about the jazz violinist’s gear, so here goes: For that matter, simply staying in the groove (and playing something like you mean it) can help with a lot with this. By generating recurring or consistent rhythmic patterns (continuous eighth note, for example), and melodic motifs (melodic shapes), this can create stability/constancy/cohesion that compensates for the instability of more dissonant note choices. In this case, I focused on generating stability within rhythm, groove, melodic shapes, and phrasing, for example. Sometimes I improvise from a “safe” place sometimes I go out on a limb. When I do take risks where note choice/harmony is concerned, I try to mitigate those risks by keeping something else more or less “stable”. My solo in this performance was intended to be more “risky”. If your question is, “How/why do you use all those really weird notes?”, my answer is something along these lines: If this performance is too “outside” for you, that’s cool.
I’d rather “be me” and have 5% of listeners “get it”, than worry about trying to sound like someone else. Sometimes it comes out smooth, sometimes rough. Improvisation: I anticipate some questions about this and some pushback as well, and that’s ok :) As you’ve probably heard me say before, creating stuff takes being willing to be boldly yourself. Be careful when employing this technique because of the angle of the wrist and potential injury. You might notice in the beginning when the loops are shown that I use a “two finger” electric-bass style technique to play the bass line. (Let me know via the comments below if you prefer to hear/see the entire loop intros or you like them shortened this way. You can find other examples of electric violin live looping videos here, or Subscribe to my Youtube channel to be notified when new videos are posted monthly.) The bass line and strumming loops were played live (two loops total), and edited later for your listening convenience. This new electric violin cover of “The Chicken”, popularized by Jaco Pastorius, was recorded live with loops played in real time.
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