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Big Thinking Will Transform Your Jazz Playing


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Today, on the podcast, I want to talk about thinking big.  Thinking big in your jazz playing. What I mean by that is aspiring to be something that you probably could never attain.

Perhaps it's playing just as good as Sonny Rollins, perhaps it's playing with your own band at the Village Vanguard. Audacious goals that are really, really difficult to attain, if not, impossible for you to attain.

I want to talk about how this kind of thinking will actually propel you forward in your musical journey and will have a tremendous output for you when you allow yourself to think this way.

In this episode:

1. Thinking big: Why it's actually a good thing.
2.  Identifying your most audacious goals.
3.  Take your first steps toward the goal.
4.  Taking note of the elements of what makes jazz players great. 
5.  How projects trigger reward responses to create motivation.
6.  The dangers of thinking big.
7.  Recalibrating your expectations to energize you in the pursuit of progress.
8.  What is your audacious goal?

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Learn Jazz Standards PodcastBy Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur

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