This episode is sponsored by the Learned Jazz Standards Inner Circle.

If your goal is to level up your jazz playing this year and feel confident improvising over

jazz standards, the inner circle has everything you need and more.

With monthly jazz standards studies, a library of powerful courses, and a vibrant community

of like-minded musicians, you're guaranteed to improve your playing every

single month.

Podcast listeners can get 50% off their first month when you go to LJSinnerCircle.com.

That's LJSinnerCircle.com or find the link in the show notes.

Now, on to today's episode.

Check it out.

I just got done practicing four hours

to demonstrate the material that I'm about to show you in this episode, where I'm going to

show you how you can go from essentially not knowing a jazz standard almost at all to

improvising over it at a fairly high level. And there are seven steps I'm going to walk you through that I personally went through

today to get myself to this point and certain tools that I use in order to kind of accelerate

this process.

So I'm really excited about this episode.

This is one of those episodes where it's kind of a big, big one. And I really want you

to pay attention to this one. It's going to be amazing. Let's dive in and let's learn these

seven steps to mastering, improvising over a jazz standard. Let's do it. Welcome to the LJS podcast,

where you get weekly jazz tips, interviews, stories, and advice for

becoming a better jazz musician.

...