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Now, on to today's episode.

How do you play scales over jazz chords so that you're

playing the right notes, but not making it sound just like you're playing scales? Well, today I'm

going to show you a melodic approach to making scales musical coming right up. What's up, Brent,

here from Learn Jazz standards, where we 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 quick win episode of the podcast.

On this podcast, we do lots of jazz improv tutorials, jazz practicing tutorials, jazz standard tutorials, as well as jazz theory tutorials, just like in today's episode.

So make sure you subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts, you never miss out on any episode. Now, when you're trying to get into jazz improv, it's very natural to ask the question, what scales do I play over minor seventh chords or major seventh chords or half-diminish seventh chords, totally acceptable because we want to play the right notes and we want to be able to improvise over these jazz standards.

However, there is a big problem with taking this approach and thinking about scales simply from this way.

For example, a tune like Stella by Starlight is one that is kind of complicated and confusing, and scales could be helpful.

However, when we take a look at what

scales are over top of this jazz standard, we see Locrian, Altered, Dorian, Mixilidian, Aeolian, all sorts of

different scale options that we can use, which are great, but in context, they don't really mean as

much. For example, when we take a look at part of the tune where we go,

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