Hey everyone

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!!!

I would improve violin skills before transcribing violin chords-WHICH IS VERY DIFFICULT

hope I helped,
mrviolin

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!

Good luck.

A good idea would be to find some music that has guitar and violin together and then listen to it to get some ideas.

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