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So, if you're practicing over jazz standards but you continually feel like you're not improving, not getting any better, it could be that you're just practicing them wrong in the very first place. So, I'm gonna show you strategies for practicing over jazz standards and actually improvising over them.In this episode:Intro Demonstration First strategy: Study the chord changes of a jazz standard Isolate just one chord and practice improvising over it Demonstration: How to improvise over one chord 2nd strategy: Practice improvising over common progressionsDemonstration: Improvising over one chord Demonstration: Improvising over two chords 3rd Strategy: Practice the transitions Demonstration: Practice transitioning 3-chord progressionsImportant Links:LJS Inner Circle MembershipFree Guide to learn standards by ear: Learn Jazz Standards the Smart Way Listen to the Learn Jazz Standards PodcastGet our Amazon Best Selling bookLearn Jazz Standards Inner Circle: Get 50% off your first month!

Welcome to episode 350 where today I discuss 21 different options for jazz practice. So if you are wondering what you should practice today, this week, or this month, this episode should give you a handful of good ideas to work with. Hey listen, so if you're sittin' there this week going, "I actually don't know what to practice to improve my jazz playing this week". Well, this episode is gonna leave you with zero excuses 'cause I'm gonna go over 21 different ideas for you to practice today. And at the end of the episode, I'll also give the ones that I personally focus on. In this episode:1. Scales 2. Arpeggios 3. Enclosure 4. Minor Pentatonics 5. Intervals 6. Learning a lick by ear 7. Take a lick into all 12 keys 8. Learn a jazz solo by ear 9. Learn a jazz standard 10. Learn a standard in a different key 11. Learn a jazz blues head 12. Learn a rhythm changes head 13. Practice a jazz etude 14. Compose your own jazz solo 15. Practice specific chord progressions 16. Practice improvising over one chord 17. Compose your own jazz lick 18. Compose a contrafact 19. Practice guide tones 20. Practice playing with a metronome 21. Listen to jazzImportant Links:LJS Inner Circle MembershipFree Guide to learn standards by ear: Learn Jazz Standards the Smart WayLearn Jazz Standards Inner Circle: Get 50% off your first month!

What are the most important music theory concepts that you need to know to make learning and improvising over jazz standards much easier?In this episode:Intro Concept #1: Secondary Dominants Concept #2: The Backdoor Dominant Concept #3: Relative Keys Concept #4: Parallel Keys Concept #5: Sidestep 2-5 Concept #6: Hybrid 2-5 Concept #7: Deceptive CadencesConcept #8: Passing Diminished ChordsImportant Links: LJS Inner Circle Membership Free Guide to learn standards by ear. Learn Jazz Standards the Smart Way Listen to the Learn Jazz Standards PodcastGet our Amazon Best Selling bookSee you in the next video!Learn Jazz Standards Inner Circle: Get 50% off your first month!