I recently bought a violin and decided to start learning, its been about 5 months and going great I love it. I have some questions; I play with a group of friends at a youth group that uses guitars and thus guitar chords. They have no sheet music for me but I love to play with them, so I normally just play for example a G note on a G chord etc. And thats fun but I get so bored just with that, the instrument really isn't been used to it's potential. So I was wondering does anyone have any advice on how to play with someone who is using guitar chords?? I once saw a lady who played her own thing on each chord, she kind of made a harmonising melody, I think she used G B D B G for a G chord. Then just kinda worked it into the song.
Would it maybe be better to learn all the different scales - since I only know my G major D major and A major I think - then just play different notes moving from one chord to another but playing the appropriate note in that key.
Please any advice on playing violin with guitar chords would make my day!!!
So what style of music is the group playing? Are they songs that have chords + a tune or is everbody just jamming.
Violin is more typically a melodic instument - it would be great it you could double the singer's tune rather than getting frustrated on the boredom factor.
Alternately, you could experiment with playing the bass note of the chord that is written, but playing it on different parts of the violin (eg instead of playing the D string, alternate between open D and 3rd finger on the A string). And funk things up with different bowing rhtyhms!
This is a trio (+bass +drums) so I write the songs thinking like a rock'n'roll- trio guitarist, always implying chords.
This is a fine training - after some practise you can accompany songs easily. You have to try a bit - the easiest way for normal major and minor chords is: basic note - fifth - third. For example A major: a (1st on g-string) - e (1st on d-string) - c# (2nd on a-string).
These days I transcribed the whole concert program for cello, viola and drums and recorded some sketches. The cello on the sketches is a "chin-cello": a viola strung with Super Sensitive Sensicore octave strings. Pickup: a Barcus-Berry viola piezo bridge (1989).
Next step was to think of a "bass-cello" - a cello tuned E-B-F#-C#. I'll use F-C-G-D strings and tune them down a semitone (I have ordered and am waiting for the Helicore F-string). The cello player will go crazy reading normal bass scores with a cello tuning like that, so I have written transposing scores sounding a minor sixth lower - the cello player reads and fingers like playing a "normal" cello.
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