Quick Win: How to Learn a Jazz Solo by Ear (Step-by-Step)
Learn Jazz Standards Podcast
Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 13 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. |
| 0:36.3 | So how do you learn jazz solos by ear without sheet |
| 0:39.3 | music so you can start improving your jazz improv exponentially? Well, today I'm sharing with you my |
| 0:44.1 | full step process for doing exactly that. Coming up. What's up, Brent, here from Learned Jazz |
| 0:51.2 | Standards. We help musicians just like you learn how to play jazz jazz all while shortening the learning curve, no matter what instrument |
| 0:56.7 | you play. |
| 0:57.3 | Welcome to another quick win episode of the podcast where we do episodes on jazz theory, |
| 1:02.4 | on jazz standard tutorials, or jazz improv tips like in today's episode. |
| 1:07.1 | So make sure you subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts so you never miss out on anything. |
| 1:11.0 | There are two things that you absolutely need to become a better jazz improviser. |
| 1:15.0 | Number one is you need amazing ears and number two is you need a vast knowledge of jazz vocabulary. |
| 1:21.2 | Therefore, one of the best practices that you can do is to learn entire or parts of jazz |
| 1:25.7 | solos by ear without sheet music. |
| 1:28.3 | But for a lot of us, the idea of learning something by ear is incredibly daunting, |
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