How Studying Jazz Can Make You a Better Musician

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 July 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Welcome to episode 20 of the LJS Podcast where today we are joined by special guest Nathaniel Schroeder to talk about how studying jazz can help you play other styles of music better, and vice versa. Nathaniel is primarily an upright and electric bassist, but also a multi-instrumentalist and has his feet in multiple genres. Listen in! Important Links: LJS Inner Circle Membership Free Guide to learn standards by ear: Learn Jazz Standards the Smart Way Learn Jazz Standards Inner Circle:...

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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.
1:12.5	Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right. What's up, everybody? This is Brent. You're listening to the LGS podcast. Welcome to the show. Today is episode number 20. That's right. We've made it all the way to episode number 20. And I want to thank everybody for listening to the show so far. We've been having a great time. We've been loving the show. We've got a lot of good feedback from the show. So we're going to keep on going. And I just want to thank everybody for listening so far. And for episode 20, I have a very special guest coming on the show
1:18.1	today. My good friend, bassist, multi-instrumentalist, multi-genre instrumentalist, Nathaniel Schroeder
1:26.8	is joining me on the show today. And we're going to be
1:29.7	talking about how studying jazz can help you be a better musician in general. How can help you play
1:36.4	other styles of music? And also vice versa, how playing other styles of music can help your jazz
1:43.0	playing. So we're going to dive in and talk
1:45.2	about that. I just want to say, though, that all of the music on today's show is by our guest,
1:49.7	Nathaniel Schroeder. Nathaniel actually writes the music for a couple really popular YouTube
1:55.7	channels, Minute Physics and Minute Earth. And if you want to check out the music he does for that YouTube channel show, you can go to
2:03.8	SoundCloud.com slash Dr. Schroeder.
2:07.5	That's D-R-S-C-H-R-O-E-D-E-R.
2:13.1	SoundCloud.com slash Dr. Schroder.
2:15.2	If you're listening to this on the website, that will also be in the show notes.
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