Nothin’ But the Blues – Chris Haigh

This was my most popular workshop in July. This workshop will again introduce the basics of blues playing on violin/fiddle, viola and cello, but will have plenty new to offer those who attended the last one. (1) We will do some call and response, introducing the idea of blues as three related phrases per 12 bars; (2) Still using the 3 phrases idea, we will try patterns which introduce the major and minor blues scales; (3) Playing by ear, I will play 2 bar phrases which you can repeat over the 12 bar sequence; (4) We will try using these ideas over three different songs which are not strictly blues; namely House of the Rising Sun, Black Magic Woman, and Move it on Over. 

mp3 tracks Blues – PDFs