How 2 Chords Fooled a Pro Jazz Musician

Learn Jazz Standards Podcast

Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur

Music Commentary, Jazz, Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Saxophone, Jazz Theory, Jazz Bass, Jazz Piano, Education, Music, Jazz Guitar, Jazz Solo, Jazz Standards, Jazz Trumpet, How To

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this Fast Track Friday episode, Brent shares an amusing and insightful story about how two simple chords fooled him, a professional jazz musician. Tasked with playing an easy song for his sister's wedding, Brent initially dismissed the simplicity of the piece. However, as the event approached, he realized he had not internalized the music properly. This humbling experience underscored the importance of deeply listening to and familiarizing oneself with a piece of music, no matter how str...

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0:34.8	Now, on to today's episode.
0:53.3	Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friends, what's going on? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another
0:56.9	episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast and another Fast Track Friday episode. This is the last
1:03.5	episode of the week where I kind of go over a strategy that either relates to the episodes we talked
1:09.3	about or not that just has been helping me and my
1:12.2	students. And so today I actually kind of want to tell a bit of a story that has a really good
1:16.8	lesson to it. And that story is how two chords fooled me a pro jazz musician. Okay? Two chords
1:27.2	fooled me as a pro jazz musician. So several months ago, my sister had asked me if I could play
1:36.1	the wedding procession song at her wedding. She got married just, well, from the time of me recording this,
1:43.8	just a few weeks ago.
1:45.5	And she wanted me to be the guitar player, along with the singer, to play a certain song.
1:52.2	And I said, sure, of course, I would do that.
1:54.4	It's my sister's wedding, of course.
1:55.6	Why would I not say yes to that?
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