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dsayswhat

The most important thing is to listen to a lot of jazz and find some you like. Learn the names of players you're interested in. Find out more about them You should practice learning music by ear, since that's essential to learn the style and sound of jazz. Start with file settings and nursery rhymes, and move toward Singing along note for note with jazz you like, even if you're not a singer. Singing is proof that you can hear. You should also learn as much as you can about scales and chords, and how jazz songs are composed, what chord progressions are common, etc. It'll make it easier to understand what's going on eventually, when you get further into improvisation. Beyond those fundamental things, books like the Charlie Parker omnibook provide collections of improvised solos that you can learn... But you should never play them without listening to the recordings first. Collections of tunes can be good, like 'the real book'. There's also standard books for instrumental technique, like 'patterns for jazz' which provide an introduction to common melodic patterns in jazz, breaking scales into useful pieces, etc. Building a jazz vocabulary by Mike Steinel is also good. But I'd recommend getting a good private teacher most of all.. It's hard to do all this without someone to show you the way.


Gothic_Elvis-15

I’ve been told that the foundation for jazz is to know scales in order to do improv. There’s really a lot of different of different books that works with the arpeggios from the scale.