How Much Do I Need to Practice to Get Great At Jazz?
Learn Jazz Standards Podcast
Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 11 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 |
| 0:08.5 | jazz standards, the inner circle has everything you need and more. |
| 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. |
| 0:52.9 | Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friend. What's up, Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards. |
| 0:55.7 | Welcome to another episode of the podcast. |
| 0:58.1 | I'm here answering your jazz questions five days a week to help you shorten the learning curve, |
| 1:02.4 | to have more fun than ever playing jazz and feel more confident, improvising. |
| 1:08.0 | All right. |
| 1:08.3 | So today we have a question from one of our inner circle members, Kevin, |
| 1:12.8 | and he asked this question. Seems like experienced players don't practice as much as we do. |
| 1:20.3 | How long slash what has to happen until you don't have to practice every day? Does there ever come a time where you can play and not have to practice as much? |
| 1:33.9 | Okay? |
| 1:34.4 | This is a really good question from Kevin, right? |
| 1:36.6 | Because a lot of us, you know, feel this, of course, desire to improve and become great at playing jazz. |
| 1:43.9 | Like, we hear the jazz greats. |
| 1:46.3 | We hear jazz pros and they play so well. |
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