Quick Win: How to Overcome Jazz Performance Anxiety
Learn Jazz Standards Podcast
Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2021
⏱️ 11 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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| 0:13.0 | With monthly jazz standards studies, a library of powerful courses, and a vibrant community |
| 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. |
| 0:36.7 | So you get up to play a song at the jam session and you're |
| 0:39.3 | terrified. You're sweating. You're nervous. You just don't feel good. You're afraid you're going to |
| 0:44.0 | mess up, screw up and embarrass yourself. So how do we get over performance anxiety so we feel |
| 0:48.8 | confident and fearless? That's coming right up. What's up, Brent here from Learn Learned Jazz Standards, where we help musicians, just like you, |
| 0:57.2 | learn how to play jazz all while shortening learning curve, no matter what instrument you play. |
| 1:01.3 | Welcome to another quick win episode of the podcast. |
| 1:03.7 | We do lots of jazz theory, jazz improv, jazz practicing, and even mindset tutorials like |
| 1:09.4 | this on the show. |
| 1:10.1 | So make sure you subscribe wherever |
| 1:11.3 | you listen to podcasts so you never miss out on anything. Listen, we can all relate to that feeling |
| 1:16.1 | of just being so nervous and overwhelmed when we're going to perform, especially after we've |
| 1:20.1 | practiced a long time. We freeze up. We just end up getting lost in jazz solos and jazz standards. |
| 1:24.9 | And we just don't feel good about our playing as a result of |
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