Making Good Musical Decisions Through Effective Practice (feat. Dani Rabin of Marbin)
Learn Jazz Standards Podcast
Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2020
⏱️ 82 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 |
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| 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. |
| 0:36.8 | When we get up to play a jazz solo, we are making |
| 0:39.0 | musical choices in the moment. And what will determine whether we play a great jazz solo is the |
| 0:46.1 | quality of those musical choices and also how fast we are able to come up with them. |
| 0:52.2 | And this all starts with effective practice. That's how we |
| 0:55.6 | learn to make great musical choices. And so on today's show, I have a very special guest, |
| 1:00.2 | Danny Rabin, from the Prague jazz rock band Marbin, to talk all about that. His philosophy behind |
| 1:08.9 | learning jazz improvisation, his philosophy behind effective practice |
| 1:13.0 | and making great musical choices. This is going to be a good one. So get ready. Let's do this |
| 1:19.2 | thing. Welcome to the LJS podcast, where you get weekly jazz tips, interviews, stories, |
| 1:26.4 | and advice for becoming a better jazz musician. |
| 1:29.8 | And now your host. He's a jazz musician, author, and entrepreneur, Brent Bartstra. |
| 1:36.3 | What's up, everybody? Brent here from LearnJassstanders.com, which is a blog, a podcast, and videos |
| 1:41.4 | all geared towards helping you become a better jazz musician. Yes, indeed, |
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