21 Things For You to Practice - a podcast by Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur

Welcome to episode 350 where today I discuss 21 different options for jazz practice. So if you are wondering what you should practice today, this week, or this month, this episode should give you a handful of good ideas to work with.

Hey listen, so if you're sittin' there this week going, "I actually don't know what to practice to improve my jazz playing this week". Well, this episode is gonna leave you with zero excuses 'cause I'm gonna go over 21 different ideas for you to practice today. And at the end of the episode, I'll also give the ones that I personally focus on.

In this episode:

1. Scales
2. Arpeggios
3. Enclosure
4. Minor Pentatonics
5. Intervals
6. Learning a lick by ear
7. Take a lick into all 12 keys
8. Learn a jazz solo by ear
9. Learn a jazz standard
10. Learn a standard in a different key
11. Learn a jazz blues head
12. Learn a rhythm changes head
13. Practice a jazz etude
14. Compose your own jazz solo
15. Practice specific chord progressions
16. Practice improvising over one chord
17. Compose your own jazz lick
18. Compose a contrafact
19. Practice guide tones
20. Practice playing with a metronome
21. Listen to jazz

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