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Now, on to today's episode.

The best way to learn jazz and improve over time is

simply to learn more songs, aka jazz standards. But those jazz standards, those songs, are made up

of chord progressions. The good news is that even though there are a lot of complex chord progressions or at least

seemingly complex core progressions in jazz standards, a lot of them come up time and time

again over and over.

So once you learn one jazz standard in two or three, you're going to start seeing those

same chord progressions come up in many, many, many, many other ones.

So what are the core progressions that you need to know for jazz?

In this episode, we're going to talk about nine of them that are really common, and you'll

see come up a lot.

So let's get right to it.

Okay. it. All right, my friends, what's up, Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. I'm a jazz coach and at Learn Jazz Standards. We help musicians just like you learn how to play jazz while shortening the learning curve no matter what instrument you play. So you are in the right place and I'm really excited to serve you here in this episode. As I mentioned in the intro, we're talking about chord progressions today, specifically nine of them that are coming up all of the time in jazz.

Let's quickly talk about core progressions, though, in general.

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