The B.A.D Jazz Solo Strategy

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

4.8 • 536 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In today's Fast Track Friday episode, Brent unveils the Bad Jazz Solo method, an innovative approach designed to revolutionize your practice routine. The Bad Jazz Solo, represented by the acronym B-A-D, is a strategic tool for self-improvement. Brent walks you through the process, emphasizing the importance of bravery in leaving your ego at the door, taking risks, and embracing mistakes as opportunities for growth. By going into the process, you'll gain invaluable insights into your playing...

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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.
0:52.9	Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friends, welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast.
0:56.6	I'm Brent, and I'm really excited to be answering your jazz and music-related questions five days out of the week.
1:02.0	And today is our Fast Track Friday episode.
1:06.3	This is where I look back on this week's episodes, kind of see some reoccurring themes and provide you
1:11.7	with the strategy that's been really helping my students and, of course, has helped myself
1:16.9	in the past. Today I'm going to be talking about the concept of bad jazz solos, BAD, it's an
1:25.6	acronym. This is not a foreign concept to this podcast, but I wanted to reintroduce this in season
1:31.8	two of the show here because it truly is a strategy that I believe is incredibly powerful,
1:39.7	and it really has been helping a lot of our inner circle members since we introduced this at an inner circle retreat a year ago. In fact, if you go into our Learned Jazz Standards inner circle community, we like to post recordings of our playing to get feedback and to share our progress with each other. And it's a really fun, vibrant community, but you will see from
2:01.7	time to time in the title of people's posts, they're bad jazz solo, right? Like, they're literally
2:08.0	saying, I did a bad jazz solo here. And again, when we say bad jazz solo, that's an acronym that
2:13.1	stands for BAD, which I'll go over here in a second. All is to say, it's really powerful. And so I hope you
2:19.2	really dig into this episode today and put this one to practice and you're playing this week.
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