Free Masterclass: Orchestrating Your Musical Breakthrough

<p>Hey, my friends, Brent here from Learn Jazz standards. We are continuing our themed month of August called Free Masterclass August, where I&apos;m giving away some Masterclasses here on the podcast that we&apos;ve done in the past at various different events and mediums just to give a little extra special, a little bit of fun here and value for finishing up the summer so. <br/><br/>So, I hope you enjoy it. We&apos;ve had some great Masterclasses this month on the podcast. Already today, I want to share a Masterclass that was given during our Learn Jazz Live Virtual Summit in 2022 by a team member of mine, Brett Pontecorvo. <br/><br/>And those of you who are Inner Circle members know Brett very well because he&apos;s in the community coaching, and he creates some of our content for our monthly Jazz Standard Studies. And he gave a really great masterclass that year called &quot;Orchestrating Your Musical Breakthrough&quot;. <br/><br/>So, a lot of us sometimes feel a little stuck in our playing, feel like we hit plateaus, or perhaps just don&apos;t really understand that we have so much potential as musicians. And so what Brett does is he talks about in this Masterclass ways for us to start achieving a musical breakthrough. <br/><br/>That &quot;AHA!&quot; moment where you feel like you&apos;re improving and you get excited. That moment that we&apos;re all really searching for when we sit down with our instruments. So without further ado, let&apos;s go ahead and get Brett Pontecorvo on to give this masterclass, &quot;Orchestrating Your Musical Breakthrough&quot;.  <br/><br/><b>In this episode:<br/><br/></b>Achieve breakthroughs and make progress in learning jazz with the following strategies:<br/><br/>1. Define a game you can win by setting clear and achievable goals with measurable victory conditions</p><p>2. Develop a strategy to achieve these goals by overcoming barriers like negative self-talk, lack of time, and lack of information <br/><br/>3. Take consistent action by practicing regularly in short bursts, ma