Simplifying Jazz Standards to Make Them Easy (Tune Up Analysis)

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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🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Welcome to episode 166 of the LJS Podcast where we kick off "Jazz Standards Month." This month we are exploring jazz standards and digging into different concepts to see how we can learn, understand, and improvise over them better. In this episode, I go over the jazz standard Tune-Up by Miles Davis, and demonstrate how to simplify these chord changes to make them easier to understand. Important Links: LJS Inner Circle Membership Free Guide to learn standards by ear: Learn Jazz Standards ...

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by the Learned Jazz Standards Inner Circle.
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0:17.3	of like-minded musicians, you're guaranteed to improve your playing every
0:21.7	single month. Podcast listeners can get 50% off their first month when you go to LJSinterCircle.com.
0:29.5	That's LJSinnerCircle.com or find the link in the show notes. Now, on to today's episode.
0:37.0	Welcome to Jazz Standards Month here on the
0:39.2	LGS podcast, where this month of May, we are going to be celebrating Jazz Standards. We're
0:44.8	going to be digging into them to try to understand them better, to try to make them simpler,
0:49.5	easier to understand, and of course to help us improvise over them better. And of course, this comes along with
0:55.8	our launch of our Jazz Standards Playbook, Volume 2, Ebook and Companion course coming up on May
1:02.2	26, which we're all really excited about here on Team LJS. But today we're going to be talking
1:08.7	about simplifying jazz standards to make them easier to understand.
1:13.1	And of course to help us improvise over them better.
1:16.1	We're going to be using a popular jazz standard in order to do that.
1:20.0	Let's cue the music.
1:23.0	Welcome to the LJS podcast, where you get weekly jazz tips, interviews, stories, and advice
1:29.8	for becoming a better jazz musician.
1:32.4	And now your host, he's a jazz musician, author, and entrepreneur, Brent Bartstra.
1:39.0	What's up, what's up, what's up, everybody, Brent here from LearnJasstandards.com, which is a blog, a podcast, and videos, all geared towards helping you become a better jazz musician.
1:50.6	Thank you for being here.
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