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Now, on to today's episode.

Minor 251 core progressions are found all over the

place in jazz standards, and so we need to be able to navigate them with relative ease.

But how can we spice them up? How can we make them sound interesting when we improvise or walk

baselines or comp over top of these core progressions. Well, that's exactly

we're going to talk about today in today's episode. We're going to talk about three different ways

we can spice up minor 251 core progressions. Let's do this thing. Welcome to the LJS podcast, where you

get weekly jazz tips, interviews, stories, and advice for becoming a better jazz musician.

And now your host, he's a jazz musician, author, and entrepreneur, Brent Bartstra.

Hey, what's up everybody? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards, where we help musicians just like you learn how to play jazz all while shortening learning curve and unleash your musical potential no matter what instrument you play.

So excited to be here for another show. We're going to be talking about minor 251 core progressions because, like I said, these are everywhere in jazz standards.

And I think the big goal for us is jazz

improvisers or compers or walking bass lines, uh, bass players, all that stuff is we're trying

to make our improv and our playing more interesting, right? We're trying to outline chord changes

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