How Do I Avoid Getting Lost In The Form?

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

4.8 • 536 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In this week's episode, Brent addresses one of the most common challenges faced by jazz musicians: staying within the form while improvising. Through an insightful listener question, Brent explores practical strategies to overcome this hurdle, emphasizing the importance of preparation and developing a strong sense of rhythm and time. Valuable insights and actionable advice are discussed, as Brent points out the significance of thorough song preparation. He also shares effective practice tech...

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0:34.8	Now, on to today's episode.
0:52.3	Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friends, what's going on?
0:53.6	Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the podcast where I'm answering your jazz and music questions five days a week. Welcome to another week here on the podcast. So excited to dive in, help you become a better jazz musician and, of course, have more fun playing fun playing music today we have a great question
1:12.5	from bonnie stenstrom let's give it a listen hi brent and ljs community my question is how is it best
1:22.2	to learn to do improv and at the same time to stay within the form i find that's the hardest thing to do improv and at the same time to stay within the form. I find that's the hardest thing to do.
1:32.0	I get carried away with the improv and then have no idea as to where I am with the form.
1:38.6	Thank you very much. All right. This is a really great question. And it has to be at least in the
1:44.0	top five of the most common issues that musicians face when they're playing jazz and when they're improvising is getting lost in the song form, right?
1:55.9	And first, I wanted to start by saying that this happens to everybody. So if you think that you're alone on an
2:03.6	island with this problem, you're not at all, right? Even pro musicians, this happens to time and time
2:10.2	again. The difference with pro musicians versus, for lack of better terms, more amateur musician
2:16.1	is that they get lost a lot less often,
2:20.3	and on top of that, they're able to get right back on again very quickly, right? And that's because
2:26.7	they have really good ears. We'll talk a little bit about that in just one second here.
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