Learn These 4 Jazz Blues Licks (You’ll Thank Me Later)

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

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Welcome to episode 233 of the LJS Podcast where today I show you 4 jazz blues licks that I know you're going to love. We listen to them and I explain what makes them work and sound so great. Prepare to have your face melted. Now if you're an avid listener of the LJS podcast, you may have heard me talk a lot about the blues before and how I believe that the blues is a really great song form to master in order to make all the rest of learning jazz standards easier. It just contains so many i...

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0:29.5	That's LJSinnerCircle.com or find the link in the show notes. Now, on to today's episode.
0:36.6	Now, if you're an avid listener of the LGS podcast, you may have heard me talk a lot about the blues notes. Now, on to today's episode. Now, if you're an avid listener of the LGS podcast,
0:39.1	you may have heard me talk a lot about the blues before and how I believe that the blues is
0:44.4	a really great song form to really master in order to make all the rest of learning jazz standards
0:50.6	easier. It just contains so many important chord progressions, a lot of important
0:55.2	concepts, and of course, blues is kind of the foundation of jazz as far as the origin story,
1:01.0	of course coupled with European marching music and all of that, but I digress. So wouldn't it be
1:06.0	great to learn some jazz blues language? Of course it would. So let's go over some jazz blues licks that are
1:12.1	really going to melt your face off, to be quite honest with you, and that you're going to
1:15.7	love. I'll do a little bit of showing you what they sound like, a little bit of explaining,
1:19.8	and hopefully you'll come across some great ideas that you can start implementing into your
1:23.5	playing right away. All right, let's do this thing. Welcome to the LJS podcast, where you get
1:30.4	weekly jazz tips, interviews, stories, and advice for becoming a better jazz musician.
1:36.3	And now your host. He's a jazz musician, author, and entrepreneur, Brent Bartstra.
1:43.0	Hey, what's up, everybody? Brent here from learn jazz standards.com,
1:46.3	which is a blog, a podcast, and videos geared towards helping you become a better jazz musician.
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