This approach provides a clear and concise step by step method of how to play jazz. Some of the major components include learning about key historical events which influenced the cultural development of jazz and the most important people who contributed to the innovations of the music, jazz ear training, applicable and functional theory to learn how to improvise, and a three tier system of conscious, sub conscious and the super conscious methodology of learning. This approach will enable the learner to use any previously learned music and show how to directly connect it and apply it to the process of improvisation.