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The best jazz musicians in the world can play a solo

unaccompanied and you know exactly what tune they were playing. You can do that too. Let's talk about it.

What's up, Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. What musicians just like you learn how to play jazz

all while shortening the learning curve no matter what instrument you play. Welcome to another

quick win episode of the podcast. Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to

podcast so you never miss out on anything going on here. So the secret to playing the changes

is to really make strategic choices about what notes you're going to play. Specifically,

the notes that are going to make the chords pop out

when you're improvising. So let's take a listen to a great jazz blues solo that really plays the changes,

and then we'll talk about it. All right. So we start the solo off on an A-flat-7 chord.

We're playing an A-flat blues.

And we're really just starting off some pentatonic ideas here.

So.

But when we get to the D-flat-7, which is the four chord, that's where our note choices really start coming out

right so we go right now the note that we're targeting here on the d flat seventh chord at the end of the

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