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Have you ever been listening to a jazz recording,

and suddenly the soloist that you're listening to starts really going outside of the changes.

Like, it sounds dissonant, it doesn't sound completely stable, it feels unstable, it feels a little

shaky, but then all of a sudden they brilliantly resolve it back into the key center again,

and everything sounds like it came home

and it sounds great and they end up sounding like a genius right you're like wow how did they do that

and sometimes we might want to start going outside of the changes quote unquote so that we can

create some different colors some different sounds and then resolve back to where we want to be

in the diatonic changes.

So in today's episode, I'm going to be going over some ways to do that by looking at a

particular lick that goes through this exact idea of playing outside the changes and then resolving

back into the harmony again and see what lessons we can learn from that and take away from it.

All right, let's do this thing.

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