My Most Embarrassing Moment Playing Jazz

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

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this Fast Track Friday episode, Brent shares a candid and humorous account of his most embarrassing moment playing jazz, offering valuable insights and lessons learned from the experience. Through this relatable anecdote, he underscores the importance of rhythm and time feel in jazz improvisation, emphasizing that impeccable note choices and musical knowledge can be overshadowed by deficiencies in rhythmic proficiency. Drawing from his own journey of improvement, Brent provides practical ...

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by the Learned Jazz Standards Inner Circle.
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0:29.5	That's LJSinnerCircle.com or find the link in the show notes.
0:34.8	Now, on to today's episode.
0:52.5	Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friends, what's going on? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast. And welcome to another Fast Track Friday. This is where I look back at this week's episodes and see if there's any recurring trends going on or themes I like to dive deeper into. And for the first time here, I'll actually
1:11.8	just, you know, be honest with you. Today's Fast Track Friday episode doesn't actually have a
1:16.7	whole lot to do with the other episodes this week, which is not usually the case for the others.
1:22.1	However, this is just something that I wanted to share because I shared it recently with our inner circle
1:29.6	members and a lot of folks kind of resonated with it and found it helpful. So I know a lot of
1:35.2	inner circle members also listen to this podcast. So we'd love to repeat it for them here,
1:40.5	but in case they missed it. But also, I think it's a good, uh, it's a nice thing to share,
1:46.7	honestly. And the reason I share it, which is, if I haven't said it already, my most embarrassing
1:52.6	moment playing jazz, I'm sharing it, um, not just to make fun of myself, but in hopes that you'll
2:00.4	learn from this as well, right? That's always the
2:03.5	goal here. So going to share my most embarrassing moment playing jazz and some things you can do
2:10.8	about it as well. So about over 10 years ago, really over 10 years ago, I was regularly playing with a singer,
2:19.9	mostly just duo and trio gigs with a bass player.
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