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Essays on jazz pedagogy — what to practice and how.

• June 22, 2026

  5 Things I Actually Do to Practice Improvising

  Five practice-room techniques for jazz improvisation: building 12-key lines, transcribing by ear, singing the line before you play it, singing the changes, and active listening.

• June 2026

  After Your First Bb Blues: 10 Tunes That Build on What You Already Know

  You've worked up a Bb blues. Here are 10 jazz standards to learn next, ordered so each one builds on what you already know instead of starting from scratch.