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Becoming a Jazz Expert With Your Tune of Destiny

25 min • 9 januari 2023

Hey, listen, there are a lot of jazz standards out there and it can be pretty overwhelming which ones to learn, how often should you learn a new one?

But if we can take all that pressure away and instead you are only responsible for becoming an expert in just one jazz standard? What would that look like? How would that work and how would that actually help you become a much better jazz player at all the other jazz standards out there as well?

So, I'm going to dive into that today. We're going to be talking about discovering your tune of destiny and how to utilize this strategy.

In this episode:

1. The concept of the "Tune of Destiny" by Justin Nielsen
2. The 3-Track System for Skyrocketing Your Jazz Playing
3. Criteria for picking a song of your destiny
      a) one that you really enjoy playing
      b) it contains a lot of common chord progressions in most jazz standards
      c) level of difficulty
4. How learning your song of destiny contributes to your progress at learning the
     other jazz standards and vice-versa.
5. Call to action

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