Open your eyes, ears, heart, and fingers to a whole new world of sound and possibility.
- expand your creative musical palette beyond tonal boundaries
- refresh your melodic sensibilities with new ideas
- improve your self-confidence in your creative process
There’s often a gateway that leads classical musicians to expand into more creative musical expression. For me the gateway was rock music during high school that primed the pump to be open to modern jazz, composition, arranging, and more.
Chromatic melodic language is natural to any classically trained string players who have studied impressionist composers like Debussy and Ravel as well as 20th century composers including Bartok, Prokofiev, Stravinski, and others…
Explore a world of sound beyond Western European diatonic scales.
- explore new approaches to improvisation like the use of intervalic motifs
- break away from tonal cliches and licks
- gain facility and comfort playing outside of diatonic scales
Level: Advanced