Should I Learn a Second Instrument? (Pros and Cons)
Learn Jazz Standards Podcast
Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 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 |
| 0:08.5 | jazz standards, the inner circle has everything you need and more. |
| 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. |
| 0:52.3 | Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friends, what's going on? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another |
| 0:56.2 | episode of the podcast where I'm answering your jazz and music questions five days a week. |
| 1:02.0 | Really excited to be here. Always love just sharing my knowledge with you about jazz, learning jazz, |
| 1:07.8 | just improving your playing and having a lot more fun playing music, because |
| 1:11.6 | honestly, that's why we do this. That's what this is all about, adding value to your life, |
| 1:16.5 | having fun. And I don't want music to be a stumbling block for you. I want playing jazz and |
| 1:21.4 | improvising to be fun, a joyful experience that you're always looking forward to. So that's what |
| 1:26.0 | this is all about here. Today we have a really great question. This one comes from one of our inner circle members named |
| 1:31.6 | Aaron Albrecht. Here's the question. Hey, Brent. It's Aaron. I'm really glad to hear the podcast |
| 1:38.6 | is getting fired up again. Always really enjoy listening to that. My question is, you know, when, or what are your thoughts |
| 1:49.7 | on picking up a second instrument or, you know, just or dabbling maybe is a better word. |
| 1:56.8 | You know, for me, I play ukulele, but I also have a piano, which I have played, you know, kind of on and off, not in a long time, but I have played before some. |
| 2:07.6 | And I was thinking about spending a little time on the standards, you know, putting them over there on the keyboard and seeing how that sounds. |
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