Let’s be honest: you probably don’t know enough to jam with a fellow jazz musician for an hour. And the problem might simply be that you are not taking the necessary steps to really learn the tunes in question. Good news: you’re not alone! 🙂 In the midst of and creating new lessons for I recently realized that most students may know a few to a lot of chords, scales and arpeggios (and the theory around that) but very often lack a decent repertoire of common standard songs. And by “decent” I only mean knowing five to ten tunes!!!

Not hundreds. Isn’t this surprising?

In most people’s practice session, I’ve noticed that getting familiar with actual tunes is delegated as a low-priority item, while learning technique(s) takes precedence. Beginner jazzers typically spend lots of time memorizing scales and chords “in a vacuum”, so to speak. Totally backwards [guitar teacher shakes his head in disapproval] Think of an athlete specializing in (sprinting). But he only trains with squats and bench press at the gym without running at all for months at a time. Why not train in doing what he wants to do in the endand sprint a little bit every week / day?

I have made many of the files available in.pdf format, in addition to. Jazzier blues - moveable chords in F, Bb and Eb. And a Touch of Jazz * Part 2. Dec 09, 2007  The Hal Leonard Real Jazz Standards Fake Book (in Eb) pdf 562p How To Play From A Fake Book pdf 89p Italian Jazz Standards pdf 106p Jazz Fake Book pdf 448p Jazz LTD. (in C) pdf 73p This Is The Ultimate Fake Book (in C) 2nd edition pdf 776p The Ultimate Pop and Rock Fake Book pdf 336p The World's Greatest Fake Book pdf.

So, read on for some advice and seek to understand which of those widely underrated steps you can take (now) to add more songs to your Jazz repertoire. -1- Get a Good Recording You cannot memorize a new song simply from a chart. The info that is on the piece of paper is NOT the tune. The music is in the ears. Dcs a10c warthog keygen manager job. The lead sheet is well just a cheat sheet to remind you of the harmonies and melodies.

Sure, the are great but you should have a recorded “model” of the standard you want to memorize. Pick one classic (or obscure) performance of the piece in question as your template for the melody and chords.

Action step: Get a good recording (and listen to it!) for any new song you want to learn. Commit the tune to memory, in your ears. Or sing along if you can. -2- Forget About Positions Sound is in the ears. Not in the fingers.

Please dismiss teachers instructing you to learn any new Jazz standard melody “in 2 positions on the fretboard” as a first step to learning any standard tune this is BS. I have yet to find the rationale behind teaching beginners to use positions when learning melodies. I don’t see the point, or the gain in sticking the fretting hand in one strict position. There’s simply no added benefits so why do it at all?!? I rest my case. 🙂 Learn to play the melody (from memory) in one way that feels comfortable to you now. Make it very concrete and “formalize” this way of playing the single-note melodic material so you always play it the same way every time.

The way you play a certain melody on the fretboard may change over time, and that’s okay. It will happen naturally as you get accustomed to the instrument and the layout of the notes.

Furthermore, whenever possible, attempt to use the top two strings on the guitar when learning to play a new (or unfamiliar) melody, This will come in handy when you want to create a chord melody (on your own) later on. Action step 1: Learn any new melody on the top two strings of the instrument AND use the same fingerings systematically (same way every time). DON’T restrict yourself to a scale position whatever other people say. -2- Jazz Guitar Standards Chords: K-I-S-S K-I-S-S: Keep It Simple Stupid. To be brutally honest once again, nobody cares about your super hip C13(b9) rootless voicings if you can’t play that tune front to back without stopping (to look at your sheet of 1000’s chord diagrams.) You know what’s important yet again?