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What are jazz standards that can help you improve

quickly, but not leave your brain hurting? Well, today I'm going to show you an easy jazz

standard that does exactly that. Coming right up. What's up, Brent, here from Litter Jazz Standards,

where I help musicians just like you learn how to play jazz all while shortening the learning curve. No matter what instrument you play, welcome to another great quick win episode of the podcast where we do jazz improv tips, jazz theory tips, jazz practicing. But we also do deep dives into jazz standards like today's episode. So make sure you subscribe at your favorite podcast listening

app and make sure you never miss out on any episodes going on here. I'm going to show you a

jazz standard that not only is fairly simple to play and learn, but also really packs a big

punch. And I'm going to give you three different reasons why learning this jazz standard is

actually going to really compound and

help you learn and play other jazz standards exponentially better. And no, it's not autumn leaves

and it's not a blues, just a spoiler that way. It's the jazz standard called There Is No

Greater Love. So first of all, why is this tune easy? So there is no greater love is easy for two reasons.

One from the harmony has some very simple harmony where it's only going through two different

key centers. So it's going through the key center of B flat major as well as G minor. We're going to go

over that really quick and look at a chords analysis. But the second thing is because the melody is kind of repeats itself quite a bit.

And then when we get to the B section, it sounds like this.

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