Jazz Improvisation Made Simple Quotes

“If you go to a jam session, you can tell which players are scale players and which ones are not. The scale players sound like they’ve been rehearsing scales to play, not melodies to play. Don’t be a scale player. Be a melody player. Your ear should be informing you what to play, and theory should be there to support you and guide you along the way, not the other way around.”
― Brent Vaartstra, Jazz Improvisation Made Simple: Learn Jazz Faster, Improvise Effortlessly, and Become the Musician You’ve Always Wanted to Be

“Your technical ability should be informed by the musical ideas you want to express.”
― Brent Vaartstra, Jazz Improvisation Made Simple: Learn Jazz Faster, Improvise Effortlessly, and Become the Musician You’ve Always Wanted to Be

“The more ideas you compose based on the lick you learned, the more likely something magical will happen when you improvise.”
― Brent Vaartstra, Jazz Improvisation Made Simple: Learn Jazz Faster, Improvise Effortlessly, and Become the Musician You’ve Always Wanted to Be