So you’re learning in jazz standard and you want to be able to crush it. You want to be able to go up on the bandstand and take awesome solos. You don’t ever want to forget it later on. You don’t want to get lost in the form.
Well, in today’s video, I’m going to give you 4 simple steps to learn how to master a jazz standard, so you can completely crush it every single time.
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Great four step process indeed. Thank you.
Apart from suggesting to transcribe a favourite solo (good for seeing and internalising what is going on) I think there is sometimes a #5 which could be as follows.
Have a go at writing a solo (or part) of your own creation down on paper. Rule is – it has to be based on motifs from your imagination. Example – the bridge of ‘GF Ipanema’, is unusual beause the chords are not your everyday expectation. However, once having completed your (LJS) first four steps our heads should have some good ideas. Sadly for me, it is not always so easy to accurately execute (spit out) longer phrases without a bit of trial and error. Therefore (I find) in these situations, by singing something from within, I then transcribe it slowly, and thus ‘compose’ my own 16 bar variation as it were, taking a few iterations to get there. Once learned I thus have something that is ‘me’, stored in my necktop library to call on and play around with / morph in real time.