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So how do you start playing killer B-Bop solos like Charlie

Parker in Dizzy Gillespie? Well, today I'm going to show you a simple improv hack that can help you

start playing amazing B-Bop solos instantly. Let's do this thing. What's up, Brent here from

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Welcome to another quick win episode of the podcast where we do jazz improv, jazz practicing,

jazz theory, and deep dives into jazz standards.

So make sure you subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts so that you never miss out on anything. We all love listening to recordings of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Sunny Stitt, all these amazing jazz bebop players and their amazing jazz solos and lines. But let's be honest, playing bebop is not so easy. It's actually quite complicated and virtuastic, but I'm gonna show you a quick improv hack that's gonna really just make you start playing instant bebop lines, and it's fairly simple. Now make sure you stick around to the very end of the video because I'm gonna give you the number one tip I can give you for improving your bebop playing. So stick around till then. So the bebop improv hack that I'm going to share

with you has to do with what's called target notes and approach notes. And the easiest way you can

demonstrate this is, for example, over top of a C major seventh chord. If we want to find a target

node, a target note being any note that we want to resolve to in our jazz line,

then we can pick a chord tone such as the third. And the third would be an E natural, for example.

So the third. So let's just say that E natural is our target note. And we want to use approach

tones to resolve to those notes now there's two different

kinds of approach tones there are diatonic approach tones which means they are in the scale

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