What's the Best Way to Learn How to Improvise?

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

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Brent celebrates his birthday by making a simple request. A question from Rob about how to learn improvisation without extensive music theory knowledge is discussed. Brent offers a comprehensive approach to improvisation, beginning with a simple yet effective tool. He underscores the importance of experimentation and gradual improvement, encouraging embracing the process of improvisation. Moreover, he introduces the concept of learning jazz language by dissecting small lick...

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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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0:17.3	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.
0:52.6	Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friends, what's up? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards.
0:55.5	Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast here answering your jazz and music questions five days a week to help you have more fun playing music and shorten the learning curve on this jazz journey of yours.
1:09.0	And, you know, I don't usually like drawing attention to
1:11.4	myself this way, but today happens to be my birthday. And I also don't normally ask for things
1:17.5	on my birthday, of course. But if you would like to give a little birthday gift to me, I would
1:22.2	love for you to simply ask a question on the podcast. And you can do that by going to learn jazz standards.com
1:29.5	forward slash ask. Learn jazz standards.com forward slash ask. And at the end of this episode,
1:36.0	I'll also say it again. But that would be just a really great gift for me. Love answering your
1:41.0	questions here. It's a lot of fun and obviously keeps this podcast season
1:45.4	trucking on forward. So thank you so much. Do appreciate that in advance. We have another great
1:52.0	question here on the podcast today. This one is from Rob and let's go ahead and give it a listen.
1:58.4	I have been playing flute for a couple years, taking a lot of lessons.
2:03.6	I can play relatively fluently, but I have no idea how to begin to improvise.
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