Publisher: Berklee Press
Contemporary Mapping Exercises and Improvisation Studies

Develop your violin fingerboard knowledge and facility.
These exercises and etudes will help you develop a technical mastery that is grounded in an understanding of harmony and a facility with chord shapes on the fingerboard, laying the foundation for improvisation within any musical style.

Online audio tracks let you practice alongside other musicians, immediately applying these concepts and techniques to musical contexts.

These essential exercises, if done even fifteen minutes a day, will forever change the way you look at the fingerboard.

You will learn:
• Fingering patterns
• Practice approaches for improvisation
• Fundamental chords and arpeggios
• A ten-step guide to practicing progressions
• Pentatonic scales and enclosure licks
• Navigation and voice-leading techniques for an array of harmonic relationships, from the circle of fifths to symmetrical chord motion
• Five performance-ready jazz violin etudes

• I Love My Scales
• Berklee Violin Arpeggios, Chords, And Etudes
• A Modern Method for Violin Scales
• Arranging for Strings
• Berklee Practice Method: Violin