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Have you been told any of these 10 mistruths about playing jazz? If so, you may have

started believing things that are ultimately not helping you improve as a jazz player. So let's

go over to them. What's up, Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. We want musicians just like you

learn how to play jazz all while shortening the learning curve no matter what instrument you play. Welcome to the quick win episode of the podcast. Make sure you subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. You don't miss out on any one of these. And let's go ahead and get started. Mistruth, number one, if you can hear it, then you can play it. False. This one is really annoying, especially for those who are

kind of newer into jazz, when someone gets up and says, hey, don't worry, you'll hear it.

Or, hey, if you just can hear the music, if you study the music, you'll eventually be able to

play it. And that's really absolutely not true the actual reality of jazz

and jazz improvisation is that it's a combination of yes being able to hear jazz

language being familiar with it having an understanding of what it actually sounds

like but then combining that with muscle memory and actual understanding of your

instrument basically translating what you hear to your

instrument. So it's kind of a combination of both of those things. So if those two aren't in line

and being worked on separately and then together, you're probably not going to hear it and then

be able to play it. Mistruth number two, you don't need to know theory in order to play jazz.

False.

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