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One question I get asked often is "HOW DO YOU KNOW SO MANY TUNES?" Learning standards can be intimidating, but if you can use a few key strategies, you'll be able to add scores of tunes to your repertoire. Cut the chains to iReal Pro! Untether yourself from the Real Book! Learning standards and growing your rep starts with your ear. Let's talk 6 strategies and 6 tips for learning new tunes--on and off the bandstand.
EDIT: My first slide somehow did not survive the upload! At 00:26, the version of Cole Porter's "Night & Day" that plays is from one of my all-time favorite albums--Kenny Garrett's "Triology" (1995).
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