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Now, on to today's episode.

I'm going to show you five jazz

licks, though, have you sounding like a pro and unveil some of the secrets that jazz

musicians are using in their solos. Coming right up. What's up everybody? Brent here from

Learned Jazz standards. What musicians, just like you learn how to play jazz all while shortening

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Okay, so these five licks were composed by our in-house composer Keelendymic on my team for our inner circle members. And these licks really, really demonstrate

what the pro jazz musicians are doing that make their solos and their sound so amazing and so

professional. So some of these techniques we're going to talk about are really important.

And I want you to pay attention because even if you just introduce some of these things that you're playing today, you're going to reap the benefits later.

Okay, so lick number one is an example of what professional jazz musicians often do over top of five to one chord progressions, and it sounds like this.

Okay, so this comes straight out of the blues.

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