Quick Win: How to Memorize Chords to Jazz Standards

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

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🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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After learning a jazz standard you may find it difficult to recall the chord changes in the long term, especially if you're learning a lot of them. So, I'm gonna share with you how I memorize chords to jazz standards so I don't forget them. In this episode: 1. Intro 2. #1: Reading A Chord Chart 3. #2: Learning the Chords by Ear 4. Learn this first before learning chord changes 5. The first basic thing I look for 6. The second thing I look for 7. The absolute key to memorizing chords 8. How...

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0:41.3	Okay. the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. After learning a jazz standard, you may find it difficult to recall the chord changes in
0:45.3	the long term, especially if you're learning a lot of them. So I'm going to share with you how
0:48.5	I memorize chords to jazz standards, so I don't forget them coming right up.
0:53.2	What's up, Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards, I hope musicians just like you learn how to play jazz all while shortening the learning curve, no matter what instrument you play. Welcome to another quick win episode of the podcast. By the way, we also have a video version of the podcast today over at Learn Jazz Standards.com and also make sure you subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss out on anything going on here.
1:11.8	So to demonstrate today, we're going to look at this jazz standard called All the Things You Are.
1:15.4	This is a very popular jazz standard.
1:17.0	And the reason I'm choosing this one is because there are a lot of chord changes in it.
1:21.0	So this is a great example of one that may be difficult for you to memorize in the long term.
1:26.7	But before we do that, I want you to know there are two ways
1:29.1	to memorize chords to jazz standards. So number one is to do it by reading a chord chart, which is
1:36.3	a great way to do it. The only thing is we're going to have to implement a few additional steps
1:42.5	and a lot more repetition in order to internalize those chords. So this is,
1:48.4	you're looking at a chord chart like we're about to do right now and you're memorizing them
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