Listen for the language

I’m not good at playing bebop solos. I don’t listen to much bebop. I can easily play a jazz solo that uses lots of pentatonics. I also listen to a lot of Jon Batiste.

The type of music you listen to will affect what type of music you play. I don’t mean to be saying something obvious here. What I mean is, if you’re trying to learn to play bebop you need to listen to bebop.

If you don’t listen to bebop it’ll be hard to play bebop well.

You won’t know the language.

Whatever style of you’re learning to play, listen to it. Get into it.

Listen to it like it’s your new favorite genre of music.

ISJ