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Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards.

Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast.

I'm answering your jazz and music questions five days a week to help you have more fun than ever playing music and to shorten the learning curve in your jazz journey.

We have another great question here on the podcast.

This one comes from Craig. Let's give it a listen. What's the best way to jazz up your pentatonic and blues scales?

All right, jazzing up the pentatonic and blues scales. I'm going to make a few assumptions

about the intention behind this question because I do think that I'm going to make a few assumptions about the intention behind this question

because I do think that this is going to help a lot of people here. I think oftentimes,

when this question is asked, like, how do I make things sound, quote, unquote, jazzier?

Or, you know, how do I, how do we create that jazz sound out of said tool, right? In this case,

it's the pentatonic scale. It's really this effort to go, hey, I want to sound more like a jazz

musician, right? But I know this one tool is the pentatonic scale. And a lot of people can relate to that,

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