How Do I Perform Solo?
Learn Jazz Standards Podcast
Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by the Learned Jazz Standards Inner Circle. |
| 0:03.8 | If your goal is to level up your jazz playing this year and feel confident improvising over |
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| 0:13.0 | With monthly jazz standards studies, a library of powerful courses, and a vibrant community |
| 0:17.3 | of like-minded musicians, you're guaranteed to improve your playing every |
| 0:21.7 | single month. |
| 0:23.1 | Podcast listeners can get 50% off their first month when you go to LJSinnerCircle.com. |
| 0:29.5 | That's LJSinnerCircle.com or find the link in the show notes. |
| 0:34.8 | Now, on to today's episode. |
| 0:52.8 | Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, what's going on? I'm Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. |
| 0:55.2 | Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm here answering your jazz and music questions five days a week to help you have more fun than ever playing music and to shorten the learning curve in your jazz journey. |
| 1:08.4 | Today, we have another great question from Ken, Bryan. Let's give this one a listen. |
| 1:13.7 | Hi, Brent. This is Ken Bryan from York, Pennsylvania. Do you have any resources on your |
| 1:19.6 | inner circle website or advice in general for a jazz guitarist who wishes to play in a performance setting as a solo performer, |
| 1:31.8 | such as a bar, restaurant, party, etc. Thank you. |
| 1:37.0 | That's a great question. I can share a little bit about some resources in our inner circle. |
| 1:41.2 | A little bit at the end here, but I love to give some advice here in general |
| 1:44.5 | about playing solo. And I suppose this applies for guitar and piano. And you could also learn something |
| 1:51.2 | too if you're a horn player or whatnot as well about doing this as well. Because I think some of |
| 1:56.3 | these things still kind of apply no matter what. But of course, most of the time when we're talking about |
| 2:01.1 | people playing solo performances, I think oftentimes it's the guitar players and the piano players. |
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