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Now, on to today's episode.

In your jazz studies, you probably noticed that jazz

standards have a wealth of harmonic information in them. And, you know, jazz musicians don't even

always stick to that harmonic information in the jazz standards. Sometimes they, you know,

take a chord and they change it. They make it even more colorful. Sometimes they remove a chord.

Sometimes they'll add in different

chord in altogether. So how do we go from just very basic chords, like just regular triads that

you've heard of, you know, rock and pop and all that stuff, and slowly turn them into quote-unquote

jazzy chords? Well, that's what we're going to talk about in today's episode.

Four different levels of jazz chords, starting from incredibly basic to a lot more complex and

more colorful, the kind of stuff that jazz musicians like to play in their harmony, their

comping, and in their solos. Let's do this thing.

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