Quick Win: How to Learn Jazz Melodies by Ear
Learn Jazz Standards Podcast
Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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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. Now, on to today's episode. |
| 0:36.6 | So what's the best way to learn and memorize the |
| 0:38.9 | melodies to jazz standards? Well, today I'm going to just walk you through me learning the melody |
| 0:43.3 | to a jazz standard. I actually don't know and show you my exact process. Let's do this. |
| 0:49.3 | What's up, Brent from Learned Jazz Standards. We help musicians just like you, learn how to play |
| 0:52.8 | jazz, all while shortening the learning curve, no matter what instrument you play. Welcome for another quick win episode of the podcast. Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcast so that you never miss out on a single thing going on here. And let's jump right to it. Okay, so the jazz standard melody I'm going to learn today is called Grooving High by Dizzy Gillespie. And this is a classic |
| 1:12.5 | Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker tune that they've done together. I'm aware of the tune. I've |
| 1:17.3 | listened to it. I've heard it, obviously, but I actually don't know how to play it. So, |
| 1:21.8 | literally this is going to be completely raw, me going through the process of learning this jazz |
| 1:27.2 | standard. Now, before we do this, |
| 1:29.5 | though, of course, I want to talk to you about the preparation I've already done ahead of time. |
| 1:34.4 | And that has to do with what I call my list process for learning jazz standards. So that stands |
| 1:39.4 | for listen, internalize, sing, and transfer. And so the part that I'm going to be doing in today's |
| 1:46.5 | video is the last step, the T, the transfer part and show you how to do that. But already I've done |
| 1:51.5 | the listening, internalizing, and singing process. So if you're interested in learning more about |
| 1:55.9 | that, I'll leave a link in the description or the show notes to my Learn Jazz standards, the |
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