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Back when I was in college, I studied with a great jazz guitarist in New York City named Steve Cardenas.Steve is a fantastic jazz musician, tours around the world with lots of different artists, and has recorded albums. In all senses of the word, a very accomplished musician and seasoned jazz player. In one of our lessons, one time, when I went up to his house in Brooklyn, he told me something that was slightly disturbing, at least to the way I was thinking about learning music and jazz at that time. And that was, he told me that he had never transcribed a jazz solo before.And this shook me because many of us understand that conventional advice for learning jazz is to learn jazz solos by ear, transcribe jazz solos and he didn't do that, and that kind of threw me in a whirlwind and kind of turned my world around.So, today, I'm going to talk about 5 reasons why you actually might not want to be transcribing jazz solos to learn how to play jazz and improve your solos.In this episode:1. What is transcribing in the jazz context2. Transcribing solos is time-consuming3. Transcribing solos is frustrating4. Transcribing solos doesn't always translate to better solos5. Transcribing solos won't help you develop your own voice6.  Transcribing solos may not fit your learning style Important Links:Free Guide to learning standards by ear: Learn Jazz Standards the Smart WayLJS Inner Circle MembershipListen to the Learn Jazz Standards PodcastLearn Jazz Standards Inner Circle: Get 50% off your first month!

If you play guitar, saxophone, trumpet, bass, and piano, this episode is for you.On this podcast, we talk about jazz improvisation and things that literally all harmonic and melodic instruments need to be doing to improve at playing jazz. But, inevitably, there are certain technical elements of each one of these instruments that do need to be addressed that will help you actually play jazz better.So, on today's episode, we're going through each one of these instruments. We're also going to talk about things that all of them need to do, and if you are not one of those instruments, you're going to learn something here today. In this episode:What all these instruments need to be doing to improve at jazz:1. All of these instruments need to be learning jazz standards2. Working on micro and macro jazz language3. The technical aspects that each of these instruments need to be working onImportant Links:Free Guide to learning standards by ear: Learn Jazz Standards the Smart WayLJS Inner Circle MembershipListen to the Learn Jazz Standards PodcastLearn Jazz Standards Inner Circle: Get 50% off your first month!

Hey, so we know there's a lot of jazz standards out there to learn and sometimes we wonder which ones should we be learning to be able to play with other musicians who play at jam sessions or even play at gigs. And so, it can really be helpful to understand what the categories are that we need to be focusing on, the subgenres of jazz that will come up time and time again as far as tunes being called in public settings.So, today on the podcast, we're talking about 7 categories of songs that you need to be learning for jazz.In this episode:The 7 Categories of Jazz Standards You Need to Learn1. Blues 2. Rhythm changes3. Great American songbook4. Bebop5. Modal 6. Bossa nova 7. Ballads Important Links:Free Guide to learning standards by ear: Learn Jazz Standards the Smart WayLJS Inner Circle MembershipListen to the Learn Jazz Standards PodcastLearn Jazz Standards Inner Circle: Get 50% off your first month!