Swing Quavers; Improvising a 12-bar blues

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This video demonstrates how to play swing quavers, and guides you through the blues improvisation exercise on page 69 of Violinworks Book 2. For sheet music, piano accompaniments, CD performance tracks, and many more exercises and pieces, order a copy of Violinworks Book 2 here.

You can play along to this D blues backing track when practising the exercises in this chapter:

Video demonstration: