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What are jazz standards that can help you improve quickly but not leave your brain hurting?Well, today I'm going to show you an easy jazz standard that does exactly that.In this episode:1. Why is this tune easy2. 3 reasons why this is a powerful tune to learn3. Reason number 14.  Reason number 25. Major diatonic series of 7th chords6. Why studying this tune is important7. Reason number 38. What are secondary dominants Important Links:1. Subscribe to the Podcast:- Apple Podcasts-  Spotify2. Free Guide to learning standards by ear: Learn Jazz Standards the Smart Way3. LJS Inner Circle MembershipLearn Jazz Standards Inner Circle: Get 50% off your first month!

Welcome to episode 292 where today we listen to a recording of me improvising over a popular jazz standard and try to understand what I'm thinking as I improvise. Improvisation can be a mysterious thing, and it can feel difficult to connect the dots between the scales, licks, and patterns you are practicing to actually improvising great solos. This episode will give some insight into how pro and advanced jazz musicians think.Now the art of improvising and playing great jazz solos tends to be a mysterious thing for those on the outside looking in. Like what are the advanced and pro-level jazz musicians thinking about when they improvise? How are they able to spontaneously create things? Are they thinking about scales? Are they thinking about chord tones? Are they thinking about licks that they've learned? Are they thinking about a particular emotion when they are playing? What is creating this ability to create spontaneously and great improvisations? Well, in today's episode, I'm going to actually uncover that in myself to see if we can get inside of what I'm actually thinking when I'm improvising so that hopefully, you can take that information and that knowledge and apply it to your solos so that you do create great improvisations.In this episode:1. Improvisation is connecting the subconscious to the conscious 2. Great improvisers have often played what they are improvising before 3. It's important to practice things we want to play so that we develop our own "isms" that feel natural to us Important 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!

Today I'm going to show you a tasty jazz lick that's going to make you sound like a bebop pro over minor 2-5-1 chord progressions.In this episode:1. What's a minor 2-5-1 2. How to get that bebop sound 3. What a Minor Bebop Altered Lick sounds like 4. What makes this lick so great 5. What are target notes 6. Importance of 3rds 7. Importance of 7ths 8. The altered notes 9. Tips for learning the altered lickImportant Links:1. Subscribe to the Podcast:- Apple Podcasts-  Spotify2. Free Guide to learning standards by ear: Learn Jazz Standards the Smart Way3. LJS Inner Circle MembershipLearn Jazz Standards Inner Circle: Get 50% off your first month!