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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. Hey, what's going on? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards.

Welcome to another week here on the Learn Jazz Standards podcast where I'm answering your jazz

and music questions five days a week to help you have more fun than ever playing jazz.

And of course, to shorten the learning curve curve just to have more fun doing this thing

called jazz. I'm really excited as always just to answer a bunch of amazing questions that we have

this week from listeners like you. So let's go ahead and get to the first one. This is from

Keith Edwards. Let's give it a listen. Hello, Brent, Keith Edwards. Happy New Year.

My question is this. Is the Phrygian mode appropriate to play over a minor 7 flat 5 to alter dominant chord?

That's a great question. Okay, so Frigian scale, the elusive Phrygian scale.

First of all, let's kind of just hear the sound of this scale for a second.

Right?

It just has this kind of, I don't know, has like a sound to it, right?

There's like a minor seventh chord. So the Phrygian is associated with the minor seventh chord, which we'll talk about in a second here. And, you know, when we're talking about scales and improvising for jazz, right? I mean, it is helpful, right, to have what I call these pitch collections available to us. That's the way I think of scales.

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