The Importance of Muscle Memory and Jazz Improv

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

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In this episode, Brent discusses an intriguing question posed by listener Alan Kahn regarding the challenge of transitioning to a wind synthesizer from the trumpet and recapturing the ability to play by ear. Alan shares his previous experiences playing trumpet in various musical settings without extensive music theory knowledge, relying solely on his intuitive ability to improvise and captivate audiences. However, upon switching to the wind synthesizer and adapting to saxophone fingering, Ala...

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by the Learned Jazz Standards Inner Circle.
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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, everybody, what's up? Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards.
0:54.8	Welcome to another episode of the Learned Jazz Standards podcast.
0:57.3	I'm answering your jazz and music questions five days a week to help you have more fun than ever playing music and to shorten the learning curve in your jazz journey.
1:06.3	We have another great question today from Alan Kahn.
1:09.7	Let's give it a listen.
1:12.8	When I played trumpet, I played in a college big band and also was in some combos where I played out at gigs and restaurants and clubs
1:20.8	and things like that. And at that point, in my music education, I had almost no music theory whatsoever. So I was just purely playing
1:31.8	solos by ear, and people seemed to like it. I was even a part of the Montreal Jazz Festival.
1:39.8	So when I switched more recently, the last three years or so, to a wind synthesizer, I had
1:49.0	to use saxophone fingering.
1:50.8	And so I'm not quite there yet as far as playing by ear.
1:54.5	But in the meantime, I've been learning a lot of theory and all kinds of things.
1:59.8	And I feel I'm getting better.
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