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Welcome to episode 281 where today I talk with a musical mentor of mine, Justin Nielsen, all about his 3 track system for accelerating your jazz growth. Justin has taught hundreds of students, some of which have gone on to be world-class jazz musicians, and his powerful 3 track system will make sure you are practicing the right things and moving the needle.Today's episode is one of those episodes where I know I'm going to be pointing back to this one all the time because it is absolutely filled with golden advice and golden systems for truly improving your jazz skills much faster than you normally would. In my opinion, it's a great secret sauce formula for truly improving your jazz skills in a way that will yield huge results.And I'm excited to have on today my jazz mentor, Justin Nielsen, who's going to walk us through his 3-track process that he talks all of his students through, so many of his students have gone on to become world-class musicians, and it's going to blow your mind. I'm really excited to share it with you. He's going to show you real strategies, and real ways to practice to get amazing results in your jazz playing. In this episode:1. Track 1: Apply new concepts to these 7 chord progressions, take through all 12 or multiple keys -Maj 2-5-1 -Maj 1-6-2-5 -Blues -A section to rhythm changes -Minor 2-5-1 -Minor 1-6-2-5 -Minor blues 2. Track 2: Pick your "Tune of Destiny," commit to it for a year and apply everything you learn to it. 3. Track 3: Choose 10 tunes, including your Tune of Destiny, that you will apply everything you learn to them, and commit to for a year. Important Links:1. Justin Nielsen's Divine Colors album2. LJS Inner Circle Membership3. Free Guide to learn standards by ear: Learn Jazz Standards the Smart WayLearn Jazz Standards Inner Circle: Get 50% off your first month!

Welcome to episode 280 where today we talk about jazz gig set lists and how to create ones that keep you and the audience inspired. A great set list can make a huge difference in both how you and the audience feel about your gig. I talk about 3 guidelines to consider when creating your set lists, and then I walk you through a 7 song set list that I created.Alright, picture this. You're at your jazz gig, your bandmates are there. Everybody is set up, everybody is ready to play. And right before you are about to start, someone asked, "Well, what tune are we going to play first?"And dead silence comes over all the other bandmates. No one really knows which tune to play. It takes a while to come up with one. You play the first tune and then... dead silence again. What tune do we play next? Or perhaps you do start coming out with tunes and calling tunes and even though it takes some time to come across them, you notice that everything sounds the same. It gets boring for you. It gets boring for the audience, and in general, it just kind of lowers the quality of the gig and the performance. Well, my friend, that is exactly why you need a killer set list for your jazz gig that actually has variety, that is actually interesting to the audience and is interesting to you. That's exactly what we are going to talk about in this podcast. We'll go over some guidelines and give you a 7-song set list to consider.In this episode:1. Guideline #1: Add stylistic variety 2. Guideline #2: Add emotional variety 3. Guideline #3: Consider what kind of gig you are playing 4. I walk you through a 7 song set list and why I made each song choice 5. Bonus Guideline: keep variety in your song keys and don't play the same key back to backImportant 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!

Welcome to episode 279 where today I share with you 6 reasons your jazz solos may sound bad. These are things I commonly witness in the playing of beginner and intermediate players, and even with some slight changes and focus on these areas, you can start taking your jazz solos from bad to mediocre, to great.Alright, I am back after a 2-week break from the podcast, I'm ready to come back and serve you guys, and help you guys become better jazz musicians. And to get right back into the swing of things, I'm going to be talking about six reasons why your jazz solos may not sound so good. And I'm not just going to tell you why they may not sound so good,I'm also going to give you actual solutions so that you can start fixing them and taking your jazz solos to the next level and iron out those little bits that are just holding you back from sounding like the great jazz musicians that you love and you admire.In this episode:1. You're not outlining the chord changes 2. You haven't learned enough jazz vocabulary 3. You are trying to copy and paste licks 4. Your time feel is bad 5. You're not considering the arc of your solo 6. You're only practicing things you already do well 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!