Quick Win: How to PRACTICE Improvising Over a Jazz Standard

Learn Jazz Standards Podcast

English - May 20, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 6.94 MB - ★★★★★ - 429 ratings
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So, if you're practicing over jazz standards but you continually feel like you're not improving, not getting any better, it could be that you're just practicing them wrong in the very first place.

So, I'm gonna show you strategies for practicing over jazz standards and actually improvising over them.

In this episode:

Intro Demonstration First strategy: Study the chord changes of a jazz standard Isolate just one chord and practice improvising over it Demonstration: How to improvise over one chord 2nd strategy: Practice improvising over common progressionsDemonstration: Improvising over one chord Demonstration: Improvising over two chords 3rd Strategy: Practice the transitions Demonstration: Practice transitioning 3-chord progressions

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