Looking to quickly increase your improvisational skills? Seeking more studio and violin performance work?
Then the time to break out of that creative rut is TODAY!!
Learn from Violinist Christian Howes
in his Creative Strings Academy
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Watch instructional videos and take part in online LIVE clinics.
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Christian Howes – Music Educator
As a former Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music, Christian has taught thousands of string players in schools around the world. Christian has been awarded the prestigious First Place Rating (“Rising Stars / Violin”) in the 2011 Downbeat Critics Poll, and was recently nominated for “Violinist of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association.
Subscribe to Christian’s Improvisational Coursework
The training you’ll receive in Creative Strings Academy:
You’ll learn to improvise immediately, whether or not you know tunes, chord progressions, or stylized vocabulary.
- Develop confidence and overcome self-consciousness
- Jam freely with other musicians whether you’re playing jazz, blues, rock, folk styles, and more on viola, violin, or cello.
- Accessible music theory
- Jazz, rock, bluegrass, blues, Latin styles, and more …
“In addition to being a masterful musician, Christian is a wonderful and articulate teacher. His guidance when I was starting to improvise was hugely positive.”
Jeremy Kittel, Grammy Award winning member of the Turtle Island String Quartet
Hear, understand, and articulate harmony
- Recognize chord progressions
- Form chord scales, learn how and when to combine scales
- Accompany, harmonize, and play songs unaccompanied
Go electric
- You know you want to… learn how to amplify violins, cellos, and violas
- How to use digital effects to enhance your instrument
Career and music business tips
- Get more gigs that pay the bills
- Enjoy a wider variety of satisfying work
- Run your own business
And There’s More!
- Multimedia series: “Easy Tonal Improvisation” (8 videos, 5 mp3 backing tracks and a worksheet)
- Learn secrets to help you play notes that ALWAYS sound right!!
- Bass lines, loops, comping patterns in rock, bluegrass, reggae, and more
- The Violin Harmony Handbook: 75-page ebook with practical harmony tips and comprehensive break down
- Chord Glossary: hundreds of jazz chords on violin
- Jazzy unaccompanied arrangements
- Practice regimens
“Christian is an incredibly knowledgeable educator who is willing to push his students to the next level of playing. His incomparable facility on the instrument compliments his abilities both in the teaching field and in the performing field as well, being one of the greatest jazz violinists on the planet.”
Chase Potter, recipient of the Presidential Scholarship at the Berklee College of Music