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Learn Jazz Standards Podcast

Jazz Challenge #1 Write Your Own Contrafact

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

4.8536 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 26 of the LJS Podcast where today we are introducing Jazz Challenge #1 of a 4 part series of jazz challenges. These challenges will be leading up to the release of our first eCourse 30 Days to Better Jazz Playing in October 2016. Today's challenge is to write your own contrafact. 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: Get 50% off your first month!

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Now, on to today's episode.

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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, what's up, everybody? My name is Brent, your host of the LGS podcast, and today is

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episode 26, which you know what that means. That's our half-year birthday of the LGS podcast.

0:57.7

So we're super excited that this podcast has made it this far,

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and we're super appreciative of everyone who has been listening to this podcast,

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following this podcast, interacting with this podcast,

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and we especially want to thank all of our supporters so far

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for helping us fund the production of this LJS podcast and keeping it going.

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And if you want to help continue supporting this show, if you're on the website, you can click

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slash support your help your support really helps keep the show going. We have a lot of awesome

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check that out. Now, for our half-birthday

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