Learning Jazz is difficult and you want to get it right the first time around so you don’t waste any time. When you learn Jazz Guitar then there are some things that you can keep in mind in terms of how you practice jazz, the type of music or jazz theory that you learn and also what you focus on with your jazz practice.
In this video, I am going to go over 5 mistakes that I see many students make and talk about how to approach learning jazz and practicing in a more efficient and useful way.
Content:
0:00 Intro – Be Efficient with your Practice
0:33 You can fix it by thinking differently
0:45 #1 Modes
1:00 Most Jazz Repertoire is Tonal, not modal
1:26 Breaking down Modal vs Tonal Analysis
2:04 Chords are in a context – use your ears
2:37 Play the movement
3:11 Dm7 G7 Cmaj7 vs Dbmaj7 E7 CmMaj7
4:06 Understanding and stripping down Chord Progressions
4:29 #2 Learn Songs
4:30 it’s not all exercises.
4:49 Just Listen to Scofield!
5:21 #3 Listen To Jazz
6:02 What Jazz Do You Like?
6:13 Jazz is not a Skill, it is a type of music….
6:58 #4 Learn Vocabulary
7:30 What is having Vocabulary?
7:48 How To Learn and Develop Vocabulary
8:15 #5 Practice the Right Techniques and Exercises
8:32 Arpeggios and how they appear in a Jazz Solo
9:31 Keep in mind that you need to improvise
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