How Do I Practice Enclosures?

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

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Join Brent as he explores the art of jazz improvisation. In this episode, Brent answers a listener's question about incorporating enclosures into chord tone maps, offering valuable insights into bebop language and improvisational techniques. Through clear explanations and practical examples, he guides listeners on a journey to enhance their improvisational skills and deepen their understanding of jazz harmony. Discover actionable strategies for targeting chord tones and practicing enclosures...

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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 here? Brent from Learn Jazz Standards.
0:55.9	Welcome to another episode of Learned Jazz Standards podcast where I'm 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.
1:08.8	And as always, we have another great question here on the show. Let's give
1:12.7	it a listen from Stephen Hayworth. When learning a song, I use the chord tone map. I would like
1:19.9	to build enclosures into the chord tone map. How can I do that? And I know that there are various
1:26.2	different types of enclosures. And so I would like there are various different types of enclosures.
1:28.5	And so I would like to practice one different type of enclosure each time.
1:34.3	All right. Great question. So there's a few terms I want to just talk about here just in case we need to catch others up to speed who are listening to the show today.
1:42.2	There's a couple terms. One is as chord tones and chord tone map. And the other one was enclosure, which is what we're really going to be focusing on today is how do we use enclosures and practice enclosures? So first, we'll just talk about the chord tones and chord tone map. So Stephen is an inner circle member of ours, and we learned a new jazz standard every single
2:01.5	month. And one resource that we provide is something called a chord tone map. And so a chord tone map
2:06.9	is it's pretty simple in concept. The idea is we really want to know the chord tones of a jazz
2:12.9	standard, of the chord progressions going by because the chord tones are kind of like our home base.
2:17.9	They're like the foundation of our improvisation.
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