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    The document provides guidance on effective music practice, including developing a growth mindset, focusing practice on weaknesses over 10,000 hours, and designing an environment that supports habit formation. It recommends specific techniques and skills to practice such as scales, arpeggios, chromaticism, patterns, tunes in all keys, and styles. Finally, it suggests a sample practice routine and tools to use, emphasizing recording oneself and using metronomes or tuners for accurate self-evaluation.

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    Beginner's guide to the art of practicing jazz improvisation.

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    How To Practice Jazz

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    The document provides guidance on effective music practice, including developing a growth mindset, focusing practice on weaknesses over 10,000 hours, and designing an environment that supports habit formation. It recommends specific techniques and skills to practice such as scales, arpeggios, chromaticism, patterns, tunes in all keys, and styles. Finally, it suggests a sample practice routine and tools to use, emphasizing recording oneself and using metronomes or tuners for accurate self-evaluation.

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    THIS IS WHAT

    HAPPENS WHEN
    YOU TYPE “MUSIC”
    INTO PPT
    TEMPLATES
    #DEATHTOALLPRESETS
    ON PRACTICE

    • Everyone thinks they know how to do it, including me.


    • Do you think you practice the same way Prince, Stevie,
    Wynton or anyone else that’s recognizable by one name
    does?
    • You might not be Michael Jordan, but you can be
    proficient.
    MINDSET FOR PRACTICE
    • Growth mindset
    • You are not fixed in your abilities.
    • Failing forward.
    • Reframe your negative internal dialog. Be kind to yourself.
    • 10,000 deliberate hours
    • Don’t just “practice.” Work on your weaknesses.
    • Take on big things by making them small.
    • The illusion of willpower
    • How’s that diet going?
    • Design an environment for practice.
    • The power of habit.
    • Logic will not get you there. The brain is more like a muscle than you know.
    WHAT TO PRACTICE
    • Acculturation • Phrasing and melodic development
    • Technique • The jazz idiom – transcription
    • Tone • Learning song forms (i.e., blues, Rhythm
    • Articulations changes) and harmonic formulas.
    • Swing • Minor harmony
    • Scales and arpeggios • Chord substitutions
    • Chromaticism (i.e., approach tones, • Tunes in all 12 keys
    enclosures, the be-bop scales) • Styles. Will you be ready for the Latin
    • Patterns and licks section in Night in Tunisia?
    • Tempo. Can you keep playing in the pocket
    at 40-300 bpm?
    ONE SUGGESTED ROUTINE
    • Warm up • Improvisation
    • Technique drills • Reflection and planning
    • Scales and chords
    • Sightreading *Rotate any of the previous items
    • Learning/memorizing tunes into this list.
    **This plan goes from “strict” to
    “creative”
    TOOLS OF THE TRADE
    • Metronome • Keyboard for learning harmony
    • KnockBox metronome • Ear training methods
    • Guitar tuner • The mighty pencil
    • Slow Downer • iReal
    https://www.halleonard.com/ASD/ • ForScore
    • Play-Alongs
    • Mobile phone for recordings
    EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE

    • Record yourself. Everything sounds different from the


    audience’s perspective.
    • Use tools to measure rhythmic and pitch accuracy (e.g.,
    KnockBox for timing; guitar tuners for sustained long-
    tones).
    • The Rule of Louis (aka The Rule of Steve’s): Do you do this
    skill well enough to please Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima,
    and Louis Bellson?

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