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Now, on to today's episode.

So how can you start playing amazing jazz

solos, using jazz chords to your full advantage? Well, today I'm going to show you three

levels to do exactly that coming up. What's up, Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards. We

want musicians just like you learn how to play jazz all while shortening the learning curve,

no matter what instrument you play.

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If you want to play incredible jazz solos, you've got to stop thinking about playing scales

over jazz standards and instead start thinking about playing chord tones.

Scales don't really do a great job of outlining the chords in your improv.

And I guarantee you that when you're listening to your favorite jazz musicians, that's what's

making them stand out is the fact that they're able to play melodic, beautiful lines, all well outlining the chord changes. So I'm going to go back to the basics with you and go through these three levels that build on each other so that we can start figuring out how exactly do we start using jazz chords and chord tones in order to create amazing jazz solos. So let's do this.

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