My jazz professor, the late great Melton Mustafa, once gave me this routine and it changed my life: Ear training Technique Drills Language (and transcription) Repertoire (and sightreading) ....all with a metronome on the 2 and 4.
To anyone who has never transcribed a solo, it is not only really useful, but it is also fun. I find that once you get into it transcribing is ten times more fun than playing scales or patterns, because you're actually playing something that a jazz great played note for note.
I wish I could say the same. I hear you but its the weakest part of my practice. I get so discouraged and overwhelmed especially with half steps and pic up notes. It will take me forever to hear that quick little jump and I'll have to slow down all the way to 1 note just to be sure. I'm always very impressed by transcribers
As a teenage jazz trumpet player and composer here is my 1 and a half hour practice thing :) 3min Long tones All 12 major arpeggios at 104 BPM All 12 Minor appeggios at 104 BPM All major scales 152 BPM All harmonic Minor scales 144 BPM Improvise on standards I've been learning for about 15 min. Practice licks in all 12 Learn/ refine head to a standard Listen to music theory master classes online (Often Jacob Collier🤣) Then turn it into an idea. (After i've got alot of similar ideas, ill put it into 1 composition) Then watch Learn Jazz Standards
My usual jazz practice for me: Warming up Tecnique Sight Reading Transcription Ear Training Learn Standars Learn about music theory Watch your videos :)
Something I noticed today while attempting to improvise over Very Early is that I slowed it way down, and tried to come up with a little bit of language over a couple bars. Then I stopped the metronome, and tried to come up with phrases for the next couple bars. Rinse and repeat through the form. Starting at 55bpm I worked my way up to 100bpm, mostly able to find my way through the changes. Was really helpful for me, so maybe it’ll help someone else!
That process was a HUGE part of my development. Starting way back when all I had was a cassette player/recorder in the 80's. I'd learn to play something new well enough to be able to record myself playing it at 3 or 4 different speeds with a metronome. Then I would learn the leads bit by bit and play it over my homemade backing tracks. Eventually I started composing solos the same way which eventually led to improvising to songs played painfully slow. Doing it to quicker tempo songs that are severely slowed down really changed my playing for the better because without the flashy shred licks, the note choices, phrasing and tension-release becomes extremely important when trying to keep it interesting and not monotonous.
Mmm i do practice a lot of hours by day because im still young (17) so i do this Warm up whit some chords. Arpeggios (Dom7 min7 maj7 m7b5 maj minor diminished) Guide tones Chords melody (drop 2 drop 3) Scales and patterns Bebop and blues ideas Cromasitism And a jazz standard a week to put all the others things in
I'm still trying to figure out a study plan that contemplates all the small important things and the serenity to face a jazz standard without hearing myself and thinking: "oh, boy, that's bad"! So, for now, my plan has been studying my technique, my bass, my scales, learning licks or whole chunks of walking bass lines and trying to get out of my own way. Along with another channels, yours is one that helps me to reflect on the more fundamental aspects of the practice room, sort of speak... Thank you for the tips
I refer to the 3 T‘s like technique, transcribe and transpose-so it’s pretty close to what you are talking about... I think your emphasis on improvising is soo good it’s probably the most important thing one can do
I'm playing for a bit over a year now.. I got a little book with technical excercises and I do that to warm up and improv my finger skills. For learning sight reading and f. E. swing feeling I got "jazz piano pieces" by abrsm.. Where there is an 8 bar solo section in every piece.at the moment im also learning the major and minor 2 5 1 (the extensions without root) . Then Im working in the real book trying to transfer my skillz. I'm getting better in playing by ear with the right hand, but it's still very hard for me to figure out chords by ear with the left hand. Some days everything flows perfectly and then there are days when I just feel stuck and feel like I don't improve at all.. One thing the instrument is teaching me for sure is patience.. I have to get a clearer structure in my training and this plan seems to be really good! Thanks
Hey Brent, My current "ultimate jazz practice plan" is to learn how to use altered chords for voice leading on piano and guitar. And my plan for sax is to work on my sound, getting that big fat lead alto sound to carry the saxes. I've played lead in high school and am playing piano/second alto right now in our Crossroads Community Jazz Ensemble. Graduated 2017 and working my way up to be a freelance jazz musician and instrument repair tech. Love your videos and your podcasts man, keep up the good work!
I also would like to add that I listen and write down the stuff you say on your podcast so that I can apply it to my practicing and eventually, my playing.
I think trying to connect the melody to the chords as soon as possible helps me remember both the melody and the chords better. And it starts the process of coming up with a chord melody arrangement that comes out of my own understanding of chords, not from a book or someone else.
What I believe to be the ultimate jazz practice, that I strive(Although fail) to stick to: 1-Transcription 2-Analysis 3-Playing! Trying to apply it to a set context. 4-Finally: Composition and arranging. Time to deconstruct and reconstruct the previous steps to provide additional contexts from which to understand stuff. Although I find it difficult to stick to for long periods of time, it's usually what best works for me when I'm up for the investment.
Yes, number one is instrument technique! If you don’t sound good on your instrument nobody cares what you have to say. As a saxophone player, I focus on my sound first.
I completely agree with what you said, but I think guitarists like myself (and pianists) have to put other things in the practice plan as well. Comping and chord melody come to mind. Also (for me) reviewing old tunes. That would be part of my ultimate practice plan. And applying the language and/or comping not only to the "tune of the week" but also any old tunes you may have worked on (I'm always concerned that by the time I learn tune 15 I'll have forgotten tune 1).
It's simple. Not complicated at all. 1. Choose the tune your going to learn. 2. Isolate yourself. 3. Listen to the tune. 4. Choose the first chunk of the tune to learn. 4. Listen to the chunk repetitively and attempt to pick out the notes by rote (ear) using your instrument of course. 5. Once you got that chunk go-to the next chunk and repeat the same process until you got the whole tune. Yes you will struggle with this at first but you'll get the hang of it. This is what the greats did at the time when all this tech wasn't available. All they had was records. This will improve your ear, groove and improv.
I think it can be tough (at least for me) to stop one thing and start another. Not necessarily a bad thing if you're making progress on a tune, but something to consider if you're trying to make a little progress on a lot of things each day.
how would you deal with the issue of knowing what you want to play in your mind, but whatever that phrase was just doesn't come out the same from your instrument? im in high school and ive been playing jazz for a couple of years and I know what my solos want to sound like. I don't know if it's that I'm not confident enough, but the music in my head is never the same as from my instrument. if that made sense, what would you do to help and improve solos?
This is such a great video! All your videos have been a help! I have been applying it to my mandolin playing which I’m getting back into after years of playing off and on. I played as a drummer freelancing for many years but had a real desire to learn these standards on my fave stringed instrument. I haven’t been listening to many mandolin players lately but mainly horn players and guitar players. This routine you have ironically is exactly what I’ve designed for myself! I do some technique: scale, arpeggios, etc for about 5 minutes and then work on a tune and then work in soloing and then picking solos out by ear so I can get that vocabulary in my playing. I was wanting to know - how do you know when it’s time to learn another tune? For instance, I learned the heads of a few tunes when I was getting back into it, I learned the melody by ear, but I still need to look a changes sheet for chords. I’m working on my ears and being able to hear specifically what kind of chords are being played when I listen. I’ve been working on Autumn Leaves for about a week now and can play the arpeggios and now I’m working on the diatonic scale notes in between the outline of the chords. How long should a beginner to improvising and tune learning spend on a song before moving to another one? I’m only saying this because I don’t want to just “half learn” a bunch of songs, but I also want to build repertoire. Sorry for the lengthy question - but thank you for all you do!
Glad you found it helpful! I would say move on once you can play the entire song from memory, and feel like you have spent satisfactory time working on it, then move on to the next. You're not going to master. You need to continually revisit it time and time again, hopefully playing with others.
For me one thing that is really important is to practice in All tonalities...(whatever you do) go through all tonalities...every single day that helped me a lot
For the step “Learn the Chords” of a standard are you referring to studying the functional harmony of the chords or just learning the chord tones of the chords? Or both?
So I went to a jazz jam session yesterday for the first time in my life. I must admit I hardly know any jazz standard. So that may have been the first piece of homework: know your tunes. I am fine though improvising, I just sing it with my saxophone and do what I expect, so I fully play on intuition. But when the chord progression gets more complex I don't get away with that strategy. Then what I hear jazz musicians do is play scales and arpeggio's. I find arpeggio's boring and maybe also the reason why I don't listen to jazz a lot because it sounds too technical and I like a solo to mean something to the audience and have this personal fingerprint to deliver. But still what I expect you to say is: learn your arpeggio's by heart. Now I'm listening further to what you have to say...
Can't agree enough that learning solos by ear is the way. If you can hear it mentally you can use it as language in your solos. It's like Jamey Aebersold's concept of ear players versus finger players. My thought is that tasty players tend to be ear players, so that's what we should swim towards.
Thank you! This sounds like a great approach. Except.... :) I've been working on technique and reportoire for some time, but it's only recently somebody advised me to learn solos to learn the 'language'. I tried it a couple of nights ago and, even working from a transcription rather than using my (very poorly developed) ear, I found that after 90 minutes of work I'd barely learnt the first 8 bars of a Charlie Parker piece. Maybe it's my old age, but I'm think 4 bars might be a more realistic goal for me.
Hi...I think ANYTHING you learn as perfectly as possible is the key. 2/4/8/16/32 measures doesn't matter. But committing to doing this routinely is excellent. I am almost positive that if you commit to learning a small piece daily, within a week or 2 you will find you will improve, your ability to learn more quickly will improve, AND your ability to concentrate will improve, allowing you to learn more quickly for longer periods of time. Good luck...start small and it will snowball!
Yow, Thanks for all the info you put out ! it's really a great help. Wondering if you got any advice on how to transcribing the right way, what you learn from it and how you apply it to tunes... Regards!
This sounds great! I'm going to work on applying this to my daily practice. Usually my sessions are just me hacking out solo piano arrangements/"improvisation". I put "improvisation" in quotes because unfortunately it's not improvisation really, it's slow composing a solo over the changes that'll I'll use again and again for the particular tune I'm working on. Step 3 is one I never do, and definitely need to. So, yeah, thanks - I'll give this a shot!
What’s your advice on trying to figure out the chords to a standard by ear? I use irealpro to help me with that, but I want to start moving away from that.
Hi Carlo, here's a video I did on that. I do use a backing track for example, but thats just to dodge copyright infringement. In general, I recommend using recordings: th-cam.com/video/5qm62741AEQ/w-d-xo.html&t=
@@LowKeyTired-q7d I have trouble figuring out chords too, but I think it's always better to try to listen and guess what they are first instead of going straight to the lead sheet.
@@mileschen7239 I cant do that. I can never make them out like that. I can single line all over most things but can never accurately identify individual chords.
@@LowKeyTired-q7d To me, the blues is probably the best place to start. Standard blues forms start on the 1 chord and move to the 4 chord, hear how that sounds because it shows up in standards too. At the end of the 12 bar blues there may be a 1 6 2 5 turnaround that a ton of standards also have. Play these chords on the piano if you have one and listen for this transition- like sound when you listen to jazz
I like all this but I would say for for me, depending on the solo, then 8 bars is too much. Maybe 2 or 4 bars if necessary. 8 bars a day of Sonny Rollins might be very overwhelming.
Unfortunately I have only 1 day per week...this presents quite a challenge for me because it means I don't remember the stuff I rehears...ahem I meant 'improvised' during the session. Which means I am left with the task of actually improvising at the jam because I don't remember shit. Strangely enough it all comes together though (with a couple off notes here and there) over a period of time jam by jam but never the exact same thing twice. In other words...(heh heh) I practice improvising by flying by the seat of my pants no seat belts no anesthesia.
@@shendshillova6872 yeah, improv music is theory plus creativity and self expression. You just gotta do what sounds good, no need to do same things over and over again
My jazz professor, the late great Melton Mustafa, once gave me this routine and it changed my life:
Ear training
Technique
Drills
Language (and transcription)
Repertoire (and sightreading)
....all with a metronome on the 2 and 4.
What are Drills?
@@noashlichter Like etudes or progression dependent exercises
To anyone who has never transcribed a solo, it is not only really useful, but it is also fun. I find that once you get into it transcribing is ten times more fun than playing scales or patterns, because you're actually playing something that a jazz great played note for note.
Couldn't have said it better myself Duncan!
I wish I could say the same. I hear you but its the weakest part of my practice. I get so discouraged and overwhelmed especially with half steps and pic up notes. It will take me forever to hear that quick little jump and I'll have to slow down all the way to 1 note just to be sure. I'm always very impressed by transcribers
As a teenage jazz trumpet player and composer here is my 1 and a half hour practice thing :)
3min Long tones
All 12 major arpeggios at 104 BPM
All 12 Minor appeggios at 104 BPM
All major scales 152 BPM
All harmonic Minor scales 144 BPM
Improvise on standards I've been learning for about 15 min.
Practice licks in all 12
Learn/ refine head to a standard
Listen to music theory master classes online (Often Jacob Collier🤣)
Then turn it into an idea. (After i've got alot of similar ideas, ill put it into 1 composition)
Then watch Learn Jazz Standards
My usual jazz practice for me:
Warming up
Tecnique
Sight Reading
Transcription
Ear Training
Learn Standars
Learn about music theory
Watch your videos :)
Nice routine! Pretty comprehensive. Last one is genius ;)
Something I noticed today while attempting to improvise over Very Early is that I slowed it way down, and tried to come up with a little bit of language over a couple bars. Then I stopped the metronome, and tried to come up with phrases for the next couple bars. Rinse and repeat through the form. Starting at 55bpm I worked my way up to 100bpm, mostly able to find my way through the changes. Was really helpful for me, so maybe it’ll help someone else!
That process was a HUGE part of my development. Starting way back when all I had was a cassette player/recorder in the 80's. I'd learn to play something new well enough to be able to record myself playing it at 3 or 4 different speeds with a metronome. Then I would learn the leads bit by bit and play it over my homemade backing tracks. Eventually I started composing solos the same way which eventually led to improvising to songs played painfully slow. Doing it to quicker tempo songs that are severely slowed down really changed my playing for the better because without the flashy shred licks, the note choices, phrasing and tension-release becomes extremely important when trying to keep it interesting and not monotonous.
Mmm i do practice a lot of hours by day because im still young (17) so i do this
Warm up whit some chords.
Arpeggios (Dom7 min7 maj7 m7b5 maj minor diminished)
Guide tones
Chords melody (drop 2 drop 3)
Scales and patterns
Bebop and blues ideas
Cromasitism
And a jazz standard a week to put all the others things in
this is everything ive needed for the longest time ever... this is what every player needs. a good practice plan.. this is so huge man
I'm still trying to figure out a study plan that contemplates all the small important things and the serenity to face a jazz standard without hearing myself and thinking: "oh, boy, that's bad"! So, for now, my plan has been studying my technique, my bass, my scales, learning licks or whole chunks of walking bass lines and trying to get out of my own way. Along with another channels, yours is one that helps me to reflect on the more fundamental aspects of the practice room, sort of speak... Thank you for the tips
Great man, Thanx so much
I refer to the 3 T‘s like technique, transcribe and transpose-so it’s pretty close to what you are talking about... I think your emphasis on improvising is soo good it’s probably the most important thing one can do
Thanks Tina!
I'm playing for a bit over a year now.. I got a little book with technical excercises and I do that to warm up and improv my finger skills. For learning sight reading and f. E. swing feeling I got "jazz piano pieces" by abrsm.. Where there is an 8 bar solo section in every piece.at the moment im also learning the major and minor 2 5 1 (the extensions without root) . Then Im working in the real book trying to transfer my skillz. I'm getting better in playing by ear with the right hand, but it's still very hard for me to figure out chords by ear with the left hand. Some days everything flows perfectly and then there are days when I just feel stuck and feel like I don't improve at all.. One thing the instrument is teaching me for sure is patience.. I have to get a clearer structure in my training and this plan seems to be really good! Thanks
Fantastic video, as a player who has been struggling learning jazz playing for awhile now. Thank you for these encouraging words of wisdom.
well organized
good conception
Hey Brent, My current "ultimate jazz practice plan" is to learn how to use altered chords for voice leading on piano and guitar. And my plan for sax is to work on my sound, getting that big fat lead alto sound to carry the saxes. I've played lead in high school and am playing piano/second alto right now in our Crossroads Community Jazz Ensemble. Graduated 2017 and working my way up to be a freelance jazz musician and instrument repair tech. Love your videos and your podcasts man, keep up the good work!
I also would like to add that I listen and write down the stuff you say on your podcast so that I can apply it to my practicing and eventually, my playing.
I think trying to connect the melody to the chords as soon as possible helps me remember both the melody and the chords better. And it starts the process of coming up with a chord melody arrangement that comes out of my own understanding of chords, not from a book or someone else.
What I believe to be the ultimate jazz practice, that I strive(Although fail) to stick to:
1-Transcription
2-Analysis
3-Playing! Trying to apply it to a set context.
4-Finally: Composition and arranging. Time to deconstruct and reconstruct the previous steps to provide additional contexts from which to understand stuff.
Although I find it difficult to stick to for long periods of time, it's usually what best works for me when I'm up for the investment.
Yes, number one is instrument technique! If you don’t sound good on your instrument nobody cares what you have to say. As a saxophone player, I focus on my sound first.
When talking about Jazz language , where should I find solos ,any recommendations?
I only come from always practicing pieces, any idea technique specifics with regards to the piano?
Technique, Concepts, Jazz Language, and Tune Studies!
And comping!
Thanks for this
My pleasure!
I completely agree with what you said, but I think guitarists like myself (and pianists) have to put other things in the practice plan as well. Comping and chord melody come to mind. Also (for me) reviewing old tunes. That would be part of my ultimate practice plan. And applying the language and/or comping not only to the "tune of the week" but also any old tunes you may have worked on (I'm always concerned that by the time I learn tune 15 I'll have forgotten tune 1).
It's simple. Not complicated at all. 1. Choose the tune your going to learn. 2. Isolate yourself. 3. Listen to the tune. 4. Choose the first chunk of the tune to learn. 4. Listen to the chunk repetitively and attempt to pick out the notes by rote (ear) using your instrument of course. 5. Once you got that chunk go-to the next chunk and repeat the same process until you got the whole tune. Yes you will struggle with this at first but you'll get the hang of it. This is what the greats did at the time when all this tech wasn't available. All they had was records. This will improve your ear, groove and improv.
You missed a step. Have hundreds of jazz clubs to foster your interest and give you motivation financially and musically
If learning melody takes weeks do you advise repeating session 1?
I think it can be tough (at least for me) to stop one thing and start another. Not necessarily a bad thing if you're making progress on a tune, but something to consider if you're trying to make a little progress on a lot of things each day.
how would you deal with the issue of knowing what you want to play in your mind, but whatever that phrase was just doesn't come out the same from your instrument? im in high school and ive been playing jazz for a couple of years and I know what my solos want to sound like. I don't know if it's that I'm not confident enough, but the music in my head is never the same as from my instrument. if that made sense, what would you do to help and improve solos?
This is such a great video! All your videos have been a help! I have been applying it to my mandolin playing which I’m getting back into after years of playing off and on. I played as a drummer freelancing for many years but had a real desire to learn these standards on my fave stringed instrument. I haven’t been listening to many mandolin players lately but mainly horn players and guitar players. This routine you have ironically is exactly what I’ve designed for myself! I do some technique: scale, arpeggios, etc for about 5 minutes and then work on a tune and then work in soloing and then picking solos out by ear so I can get that vocabulary in my playing. I was wanting to know - how do you know when it’s time to learn another tune? For instance, I learned the heads of a few tunes when I was getting back into it, I learned the melody by ear, but I still need to look a changes sheet for chords. I’m working on my ears and being able to hear specifically what kind of chords are being played when I listen. I’ve been working on Autumn Leaves for about a week now and can play the arpeggios and now I’m working on the diatonic scale notes in between the outline of the chords. How long should a beginner to improvising and tune learning spend on a song before moving to another one? I’m only saying this because I don’t want to just “half learn” a bunch of songs, but I also want to build repertoire. Sorry for the lengthy question - but thank you for all you do!
Glad you found it helpful! I would say move on once you can play the entire song from memory, and feel like you have spent satisfactory time working on it, then move on to the next. You're not going to master. You need to continually revisit it time and time again, hopefully playing with others.
Learn Jazz Standards thank you so much, that really helps!
For me one thing that is really important is to practice in All tonalities...(whatever you do) go through all tonalities...every single day
that helped me a lot
Thank you! Blessings from mexico.
When I get a 7 days time interval free I'll try this ULTIMATE PLAN. Thanks!
My pleasure!
For the step “Learn the Chords” of a standard are you referring to studying the functional harmony of the chords or just learning the chord tones of the chords? Or both?
Great video! Thank you
My pleasure!
So I went to a jazz jam session yesterday for the first time in my life. I must admit I hardly know any jazz standard. So that may have been the first piece of homework: know your tunes. I am fine though improvising, I just sing it with my saxophone and do what I expect, so I fully play on intuition. But when the chord progression gets more complex I don't get away with that strategy. Then what I hear jazz musicians do is play scales and arpeggio's. I find arpeggio's boring and maybe also the reason why I don't listen to jazz a lot because it sounds too technical and I like a solo to mean something to the audience and have this personal fingerprint to deliver. But still what I expect you to say is: learn your arpeggio's by heart.
Now I'm listening further to what you have to say...
Can't agree enough that learning solos by ear is the way. If you can hear it mentally you can use it as language in your solos. It's like Jamey Aebersold's concept of ear players versus finger players. My thought is that tasty players tend to be ear players, so that's what we should swim towards.
Totally, ear is always the way to go.
Thank you! This sounds like a great approach. Except.... :) I've been working on technique and reportoire for some time, but it's only recently somebody advised me to learn solos to learn the 'language'. I tried it a couple of nights ago and, even working from a transcription rather than using my (very poorly developed) ear, I found that after 90 minutes of work I'd barely learnt the first 8 bars of a Charlie Parker piece. Maybe it's my old age, but I'm think 4 bars might be a more realistic goal for me.
Hi...I think ANYTHING you learn as perfectly as possible is the key. 2/4/8/16/32 measures doesn't matter. But committing to doing this routinely is excellent. I am almost positive that if you commit to learning a small piece daily, within a week or 2 you will find you will improve, your ability to learn more quickly will improve, AND your ability to concentrate will improve, allowing you to learn more quickly for longer periods of time. Good luck...start small and it will snowball!
Absolutely! No problem with doing less at a time.
It's true - technique , repertoire and Jazz Language - every other topic can be put in a list with each of these as the main titles .
Yow, Thanks for all the info you put out ! it's really a great help. Wondering if you got any advice on how to transcribing the right way, what you learn from it and how you apply it to tunes... Regards!
Hey Richard! I did a video recently that sheds some light on that: th-cam.com/video/h9G4oAIcvkY/w-d-xo.html&t=
Hey man thanks for the video! Its great!
I didnt get the review part? What excactly we do in this part as u suggest?
I know you like to keep everyone included in your lessons but as a guitarist I’d love to see a guitar specific course.
This sounds great! I'm going to work on applying this to my daily practice. Usually my sessions are just me hacking out solo piano arrangements/"improvisation". I put "improvisation" in quotes because unfortunately it's not improvisation really, it's slow composing a solo over the changes that'll I'll use again and again for the particular tune I'm working on.
Step 3 is one I never do, and definitely need to. So, yeah, thanks - I'll give this a shot!
Awesome Phil!
I do a lot of push ups to learn jazz
What’s your advice on trying to figure out the chords to a standard by ear? I use irealpro to help me with that, but I want to start moving away from that.
Hi Carlo, here's a video I did on that. I do use a backing track for example, but thats just to dodge copyright infringement. In general, I recommend using recordings: th-cam.com/video/5qm62741AEQ/w-d-xo.html&t=
Navigate our instruments? Sounds like a pickup line: "Hey, baby, let me navigate your instrument." Just kidding! These videos are very helpful.
I really have no idea. I use ireal pro to figure out the chords, learn the melody, get stuck, give up, then fiddle for an hour hahaha.
Oh no! Not iReal Pro! ;)
@@Learnjazzstandards dont tell me theres something wrong with ireal pro. I'll never get anywhere if I dont see the chords laid out.
@@LowKeyTired-q7d I have trouble figuring out chords too, but I think it's always better to try to listen and guess what they are first instead of going straight to the lead sheet.
@@mileschen7239 I cant do that. I can never make them out like that. I can single line all over most things but can never accurately identify individual chords.
@@LowKeyTired-q7d To me, the blues is probably the best place to start. Standard blues forms start on the 1 chord and move to the 4 chord, hear how that sounds because it shows up in standards too. At the end of the 12 bar blues there may be a 1 6 2 5 turnaround that a ton of standards also have. Play these chords on the piano if you have one and listen for this transition- like sound when you listen to jazz
I like all this but I would say for for me, depending on the solo, then 8 bars is too much. Maybe 2 or 4 bars if necessary. 8 bars a day of Sonny Rollins might be very overwhelming.
practice vi ii V I , arpeggios, ii V I licks, progressions, and practice jazz standards
Triades work
Triads can be helpful to study!
Unfortunately I have only 1 day per week...this presents quite a challenge for me because it means I don't remember the stuff I rehears...ahem I meant 'improvised' during the session. Which means I am left with the task of actually improvising at the jam because I don't remember shit. Strangely enough it all comes together though (with a couple off notes here and there) over a period of time jam by jam but never the exact same thing twice. In other words...(heh heh) I practice improvising by flying by the seat of my pants no seat belts no anesthesia.
Just play a backing track and play notes that sound cool with it, no stress mannnn
Yeah idk why everyone is making such a big deal about jazz improv. Just play notes that sound cool duh
@@shendshillova6872 yeah, improv music is theory plus creativity and self expression. You just gotta do what sounds good, no need to do same things over and over again
Chords, 2 5 1 progressions
Maybe if Coltrane knew these he wouldn't be bad lol
Those are fighting words
did anyone count how many times he said "jazz" in the video?
Jazz Chromatic Harp
work on the things ya wanna do...
Great stuff. Thank you.