How to Prepare For a Jazz Performance

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

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this insightful Fast Track Friday episode, Brent discusses the critical topic of preparing for jazz performances, whether it's a gig, a jam session, or any other musical engagement. Reflecting on the themes covered throughout the week, Brent emphasizes the importance of preparation in reducing stage fright, allowing licks to flow organically in solos and mastering jazz jam session etiquette. With a focus on practical strategies, Brent offers a roadmap to navigate the complexities of musica...

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0:34.8	Now, on to today's episode.
0:53.4	Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friends, what's up? Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the podcast where I'm answering your jazz and music questions five days a week. And today is another fast track Friday episode where I look back at this week's episodes and see what kind of strategies and overarching themes I can help you with further that have
1:14.1	worked for me, would work for my students. So let's jump into it today. So this week we've talked
1:18.8	about how important is reading music notation to jazz. How do we get licks to come out in our
1:24.2	solos? How do we deal with stage fright? Yesterday was what is good jazz jam
1:28.8	session etiquette. And sort of underneath all of these is the idea of preparation. How do we become
1:36.9	prepared enough that we reduce our stage fright? How do we become prepared enough that licks do
1:43.0	come out in our solos organically?
1:46.5	You know, how do we get prepared to go to a jam session, right, and feel confident and good
1:50.3	about playing at that jam session? All these things are really important. So today we're going to
1:54.9	talk about how to prepare for a jazz performance, whether it be, you know, playing for one other person, whether it be playing
2:02.8	at a jam session, whether it be playing an actual gig, like an actual performance, it doesn't
2:08.9	really matter. All of this is fair game. All of this applies. Okay. So the first thing that I like to do whenever I am preparing prefer performance,
2:21.4	like say someone calls me for a gig, the first thing I like to do is ask what are the songs we are
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