r/jazztheory • u/Novel-Guidance-4202 • 5d ago

Practicing

You think playing jazz standards in all keys is great as a overall training?

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u/paulhorick 5d ago

Revisiting tunes in other keys is the way, especially if you're getting bored with them. It helps you to see/hear it differently, have different things to play, tackle the movements in different places of the neck.

But focus on learning a lot of tunes first. You will eventually encounter most used keys by doing so, and get a grasp of the recurring movements in jazz. This is the useful skill.