The Worst Mistake When You Study Jazz!

It is probably mostly a problem you are teaching yourself but organizing your Jazz Practice and getting the right things in there is something that is often going wrong. At the same time, this is so incredibly easy to avoid and all you need to do is take a step back and look at what you are trying to learn without getting lost in the details.

I say it all the time: Learn Jazz, Make Music but for you to make music you need to focus on learning some pieces to make music with and that is very often not on the list when people start practicing and studying Jazz.

10 min practice routine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xg4miye7Eo&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcEH_t-3gKfOHtVlD-1HFvQm&index=2&t=0s

10 commandments of learning Jazz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6p9npt0Ru0&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcEH_t-3gKfOHtVlD-1HFvQm&index=4

The Article on my website: https://jenslarsen.nl/the-worst-mistake-when-you-study-jazz/

Content:
0:00 Intro
0:26 Forgetting What You Want to Learn?
0:42 It may seem ok, but it isn't
1:15 Skills for Jazz
1:40 Exercises are not Music
2:19 What you will miss and what you should be doing
2:38 Playing Real Music
3:07 Jazz Harmony is more than II V I and Turnarounds!
3:37 How many II V's in a Jazz Standard?
4:30 How To Really Learn Jazz
5:10 What is playing Jazz, what is the goal.
5:53 Is this missing in online education?
6:12 Like the video? Check out my Patreon Page