How Do I Improvise Over Unrelated Chords?
Learn Jazz Standards Podcast
Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by the Learned Jazz Standards Inner Circle. |
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| 0:29.5 | That's LJSinnerCircle.com or find the link in the show notes. |
| 0:34.8 | Now, on to today's episode. |
| 0:52.3 | Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. Hey, hey, what's up already, Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the Learn |
| 0:57.7 | Jazz Standards podcast. I'm answering your jazz and music related questions five days a week on the show |
| 1:05.1 | to help you shorten the learning curve, have more fun than ever, and start playing the jazz |
| 1:10.5 | solos that you've always dreamed you could play. |
| 1:13.1 | I'm talking about like those solos where if you were just say busking on the side of the street, |
| 1:18.8 | someone walking by would turn their head and go, whoa, look at the way that guy can play. |
| 1:23.8 | I mean, at least that's really kind of the dream, isn't it, right? |
| 1:27.1 | Okay. So today's question |
| 1:28.9 | comes from Lewis and let's give it a listen. Hey, so my question is, are there ways to switch from |
| 1:40.7 | one key to the other smoothly, even though the key are completely iran related |
| 1:46.1 | meaning are there ways in jazz that we can come from one key and go to the |
| 1:54.1 | other key I'm wondering that because I've always found I have trouble finding |
| 2:00.4 | chords that are not in the |
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