How Do I Know What To Practice?

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

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In this episode, Michael, a piano player, asks how to efficiently allocate practice time to various topics like scales, voicings, improvisation, and more. Brent emphasizes the importance of focusing on the 20% of practice that yields 80% of the results, advising musicians to prioritize practicing what ails them the most or where they have the most potential. Brent shares practical tips to identify strengths and weaknesses. He also introduces the concept of the three pillars of jazz improvisa...

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0:29.5	That's LJSinnerCircle.com or find the link in the show notes.
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? Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards. Welcome to another
0:56.2	episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast. I'm answering your jazz and music questions five days
1:02.6	a week to help you have more fun than ever playing music and, of course, to shorten the learning
1:07.2	curve in your jazz journey. Today's question comes from Michael.
1:11.8	Let's give it a listen.
1:12.6	Hi, Brent.
1:14.3	My name is Michael.
1:16.1	I'm a piano player.
1:22.4	And when I try to figure out what I'm going to practice each day, I try to be as efficient as possible in covering the topics that I need to cover to get better.
1:29.4	But there are just so many topics.
1:34.7	There's, you know, as you know, scales and modes, different voicings, time feel,
1:41.1	working on improvisational ideas, different piano techniques like drop two and other chord melody types of things, lines and licks working in different keys rhythm
1:47.8	changes blues bebop on and on and on um i think all these things are important i'd like to cover
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