Discover The Jazz Standard Secrets The Pros Use to Master Any Song
Jazz Standards Mastery reveals the exact methods pro jazz players use to learn tunes fast, lock the changes into memory, comp and improvise with confidence on any standard.
Are you constantly frustrated when you play jazz standards?
You’ve put in the work. You’ve “learned” the song. But when you go to improvise, you still feel confused about how to improvise over it. You still don’t sound remotely close to your jazz heroes. You still get lost in the form. You still forget the song a month later.
Here’s the truth: it’s not your talent. It’s not that you don’t have resources available to you. It’s because no one every showed you exactly how the pros learn, practice, and improvise over jazz standards.
And until you remove the old habits of learning jazz standards that have you spinning your wheels, you’ll always feel stuck and like you’re “missing something.”
Does this sound familiar?
You know a handful of jazz standards, but none of them feel truly solid
You “know ” the melody, but you still mess it up when you go to play it live
You lose your place in the form and hope no one in the room notices
You spend weeks learning a new tune and then forget it a month later
You avoid jam sessions because you’re not confident in the tunes they’ll call
You’re not even sure which jazz standards to learn, so you feel unmotivated to do anything
If any of that hits home… it’s not you – you’re just missing the right information. And Jazz Standards Mastery will show you exactly what to do.
Time to go from "jazz standards misery" to jazz standards mastery
Jazz standards are far more predictable than they feel. The same song types come up again and again, the same progressions show up in hundreds of tunes, and the same patterns repeat inside almost every form.
Once you can see them, learning a standard stops being memorization and starts being recognition. Improvisation becomes natural, not forced.
Jazz Standards Mastery Workshop
Jazz Standards Mastery features 7 focused masterclasses built around the thing your entire jazz journey actually runs on: the songs. You’ll stop guessing which tunes to learn, stop losing your place in the form, and stop blanking on chords you swore you knew. Instead, you’ll have a clear path for learning any standard, understanding how it works, improvising over it, and getting better at it for as long as you play.
By the end of this workshopyou will have learned:
- Which jazz standards to learn and why so you stop collecting random tunes and start building a repertoire that actually serves you.
- The strategies each type of jazz standard demands, because a ballad, a blues, and a bebop head all ask something different from you.
- How to improvise over the progressions that appear in hundreds of tunes, with step-by-step strategies that start simple and build.
- How to see the architecture of any standard, so chord progressions stop being random lists and start memorizing themselves.
- Pro-level voicings for piano and guitar, so you can comp through a tune and sound like you belong.
- A repeatable practice system, for taking any tune from brand new to genuinely mastered, and keeping it there.
THE MASTERCLASSES
The 7 Jazz Standard Types:
Exact Strategies To Master Each One
Bebop tunes, ballads, blues, rhythm changes, and modal tunes each demand something different from you. You’ll get the key songs in every category plus the specific strategy that makes each type sound great, so you always know which standards to learn and how to sound good on them.
The Architecture Of Jazz Standards:
Understand How Tunes Work to Learn Them With Ease
Jazz standards are built from repeating patterns, and once you see them everything gets easier. You’ll walk through a step-by-step system for understanding jazz standards – identifying resolution centers, form, chord analysis and more.
Pro-Level Jazz Solos:
Simple Strategies Over Common Chord Progressions
Learn a handful of progressions and you’ve unlocked hundreds of tunes. You’ll get improv strategies for the 2-5-1, the minor 2-5-1, the I-VI-ii-V and more, built stepwise from simple to advanced and demonstrated over every one so you hear exactly how it sounds.
The Jazz Standards Practice Blueprint:
A Complete System for "Mastering" Any Tune
Learning a tune is one thing. Getting better at it month after month is another. You’ll get a complete practice system that takes any standard from first look to genuinely mastered, plus a review method so you never lose the tunes you’ve worked for.
Jazz Piano Chord Essentials:
Play Pro Voicings Over Any Jazz Standard
Pianists and non-pianists alike, this is for you. Working through one standard from top to bottom, you’ll learn the core voicings that let you comp through any tune, then expand into the sophisticated shapes that give your playing that unmistakable jazz sound.
Jazz Guitar Chord Essentials:
Play Pro Voicings Over Any Jazz Standard
Guitarists, this one is for you. Using a single standard as the framework, you’ll start with the essential stock shapes every jazz guitarist needs, then move into the richer voicings that instantly make your comping sound professional.
Transposition Secrets:
Simple Strategies for Playing Standards In Any Key
The singer calls your tune in a different key. Now what? You’ll learn practical techniques for transposing on the spot, plus how to use transposition as a practice tool that gets you comfortable in the keys you currently avoid.
MEET THE INSTRUCTORS
All masterclasses are taught by pro jazz musicians and educators with decades of playing and teaching experience
Brett Pontecorvo
Brett Pontecorvo is a pro pianist and educator based out of New York City. He serves as Music Production Manager at Learn Jazz Standards, has a B.A in Jazz Performance and over a decades worth of experience teaching music
James Melton
James is a pro jazz guitarist and educator who performs regularly in Philadelphia. He's studied with renowned guitarists like Dave Allen, holds a Masters degree in Jazz Studies, has over a decade of experience teaching students.
Josiah Boornazian
Josiah is and award-winning saxophonist who's performed with the likes of Chris Potter, Dave Holland, Jimmy Heath, and more. He holds a Masters and DMA degrees in Musical Arts, and is the Director of Jazz Studies and the University of Utah
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
When you sign up for Jazz Standards Mastery you’ll get immediate access to powerful resources.
- 7 transformational jazz standards masterclasses, taught by pro jazz musicians and educators that tackle common struggles musicians face with rhythm.
- Powerful printable PDF handouts to accompany each masterclass, filled with exercises and examples to help you take what you learn into action in the practice room.
- Quick access on our easy-to-use course platform, so you can access your content at any time without needing to download large files to your computer, and track which masterclasses you’ve watched.
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