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All right, my friends, what's up? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast. I'm answering your jazz and music related questions five days a week to help you become a better jazz musician to feel more confident to have a lot of fun playing music. We have a great question today. This one comes from one of our inner circle members, Kevin Pritchett, who asks, what's a practical way to recognize

the use of secondary dominance in jazz standards? I understand the theory, but don't know how to recognize them or how to actually

use them. Great question, Kevin. So this is around the concept of secondary dominance, which is a

music theory term to try to describe a harmonic shift or a harmonic substitution

that can happen with chords in jazz standards, but of course also in other styles of music.

So I think it's important first that we define what a secondary dominant is.

Best way to do that is just to talk a little bit about basic diatonic harmony, diatonic meaning

in the key, right?

So let's do the teacher's key, the key of C.

Let's do what's called a 16-25 chord progression, okay?

That means we're using the one chord in the key, the six chord in the key,

the two chord and the five chord in the key, right? And that all comes, by the way, if you're

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