10 Jazz Solos You Should Learn
Learn Jazz Standards Podcast
Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:52.3 | Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, everybody, what's up? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast and another fast track Friday here on the show. Well, this is where I look back at this week's episodes and see if there's any themes that are common or themes I just like to expand upon a little bit and some strategies |
| 1:11.9 | that have helped me and some of my students. |
| 1:15.2 | Today I want to talk about jazz solos that you should learn, right? |
| 1:18.9 | This is a big practice that a lot of jazz educators are going to suggest learning |
| 1:24.5 | solos from the greats or from whomever you like just to learn more jazz |
| 1:28.6 | language and understand how to speak the jazz language right in last episode we talked about how do |
| 1:33.5 | i tell a story with my solo and the uh anthony who asked the question wanted to know some solos that did |
| 1:40.2 | tell good stories and that were worth checking out and learning. And so in the spirit of that, |
| 1:45.7 | I'd like to continue that and talk about 10 jazz solos worth learning and getting under your |
| 1:52.6 | fingers, whether it be parts of them, whether it be all of them, whether it be one chorus. I mean, |
| 1:57.4 | you fill in the blank what's useful to you, But these are excellent solos. I'll go over |
| 2:01.9 | each one and tell you why. Number one is Miles Davis's solo on so what. So, so what for a lot of us, |
| 2:11.0 | like we know that tune. It's just D minor, E flat minor. It's a modal tune. And this is a great entry-level jazz solo to learn. |
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