How Do I Play What I'm Hearing In My Head?

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

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In this episode, Brent addresses a crucial question posed by listener Troy West about bridging the gap between auditory imagination and instrumental execution in jazz improvisation. He offers invaluable insights and practical exercises to enhance the connection between what musicians hear in their minds and what they play on their instruments. He begins by discussing the fundamentals of ear training, emphasizing the importance of interval and chord recognition as essential skills for strength...

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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? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another
0:55.3	episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast where I'm answering your jazz music questions five days a week
1:00.1	to help you have more fun than ever playing music and to shorten the learning curve of your jazz journey.
1:06.3	So excited to have you here today. We have a great question from Troy West. Let's give it a listen.
1:11.6	Hello. My question is about playing what you hear. I'm a guitarist, and there seems to be a
1:20.0	disconnect between sounds that I hear in my head and what I'm able to get under my fingers.
1:26.4	I'm just wondering if there are any specific
1:28.5	examples or exercises that could help with us. Thanks. Yeah, absolutely, Troy. So we talk about this
1:36.5	a lot here on the podcast, right? This idea that improvisation is where what we hear in our head
1:42.8	meets muscle memory, right? And so we want to be able to
1:47.0	build this skill so that the things that we are hearing our head can more likely come out
1:51.8	on our instrument. So let's talk about some options that we have available to us. So the first
1:57.8	one I want to start with is just like the basics of ear training, right? Just
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