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Imagine you're planning a cross-country road trip

in whatever country you live in. And before you go on your trip, you want to map out all the different

possible attractions you could possibly see on the way to your final destination. And even though

you're not going to end up seeing all of them, at least you know what's available to you. So sometimes it's going to look like a zigzag. It's going to go way off course. It's going to end up seeing all of them. At least you know what's available to you. So sometimes

it's going to look like a zigzag. It's going to go way off course. It's going to go, you know,

taking twists and turns. Eventually you'll get to your final destination. Well, when it comes to

jazz improvisation, sometimes we want to map out all of the different note choices we have

available to us before we start

trying to create actual melodies.

And this is where scales can be helpful when applied in exercises.

So in today's episode, I'm going to talk about how to start applying scales to jazz in a way

that we can start mapping out note choices, but connecting them together so that we end up

getting to our final destination at the end of the song form. All right, let's do this thing.

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