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Now, on to today's episode.

I often say that the blues is an incredible

jumping off point into jazz and learning jazz standards and how to improvise over them.

In today's episode, I'm actually going to talk about a variation on the blues called

a bird blues. And bird, of course, refers to the great saxophonist Charlie Parker, the bebop legend.

And he kind of took those basic blues changes and transformed them into lots of extra

moving harmony that really just made it creative.

And I think that the bird blues is an excellent example of how we can take a basic blues

form and start really transitioning into

what is more typical jazz standard harmony, which is really going to open up the doors

to being able to improvise over tons and tons of different tunes really proficiently.

This is going to be a good episode. I'm going to give you some strategies and go over what

the bird blues is. Let's do this thing.

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