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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, everybody, what's up? Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode

of the podcast where I am answering your jazz and music questions five days a week to help you

become a better jazz musician and have more fun playing music because that's what this thing

is all about. Today, I have a question from Alain Landis, and let's give it a listen.

There is so much jazz vocabulary out there, wonderful licks to learn in all many, many

keys, and this is what we do for a long time. How do we get to the point where these licks,

this vocabulary, can come out nicely at the right time in your jazz solos.

Excellent question. A lot of people have this question. I've heard this one so many times over the

years. So excited to get into this. First of all, let's talk about the purpose of learning licks.

Why do we learn licks? And first of all,

if you don't know what a lick is, a lick is just a short musical idea, usually over a chord

or a chord progression, right? So, for example, a 251 chord progression, a really important

chord progression in jazz, probably a good idea to learn some musical vocabulary, aka Licks, over top of this,

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