HOMESPUNTaught By Matt Glaser.
All Levels
Six CDs, Plus Music Book
No matter what instrument or type of music you play or sing, this six-CD course in musicianship, theory and ear training will develop your skills, help you create and improvise solos and expand your musical consciousness. Through a progressive series of interactive exercises, Matt Glaser teaches you to play or sing anything you hear.
Over weeks and months of studying these lessons, you'll develop the ability to recognize pitches, intervals and phrases, transcribe instrumental solos and repeat complex rhythms and meters.
Starting with the simplest two-note intervals, Matt gradually builds up your melodic and rhythmic sense until you have developed the ability to play back complex phrases and complete solos-after only one hearing!
Matt Glaser, swing fiddle player and head of the string department at Boston's Berklee College of Music, has developed this unique program for all musicians, and it really works!
This series is an invaluable tool for anyone serious about improving his or
her musical knowledge and technique, whether you are a beginner or experienced
professional.
Matt
Glaser has been chairman of the String Department at the Berklee College of Music
in Boston for 18 years. He has performed widely in a variety of idioms with artists
such as Stephane Grappelli, David Grisman, Lee Konitz, the Waverly Consort, Fiddle
Fever, and most recently with Wayfaring Strangers--a band that fuses jazz and
folk music. He has published four books on contemporary violin styles including "Jazz
Violin" co-authored with the late Stephane Grappelli, and has written for
many music magazines including Strings, Acoustic Musician, and Acoustic Guitar. Matt has performed at the White House, and at Carnegie Hall with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor as part of Stephane Grappelli's 80th birthday concert. He has taught at the Mark O'Connor Fiddle Camp, University of Miami, American String Teacher Association conferences, International Association of Jazz Educator conferences, and many others.
"Possibly America's most versatile violinist." -- The Boston Herald