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So if you're practicing, improvising over jazz standards, but you continually feel like you're not improving, not getting any better, it could be that you're just practicing them wrong in the very first place. So I'm going to share with you strategies for practicing jazz standards and actually improvising over them coming right up. What's up, Brett New from Learned Jazz Dayers?

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So to demonstrate the strategies that I'm talking about for

actually practicing improvising, let's go look at the tune called 4, and this is by Miles Davis,

four sounds like this. So for our purposes today, let's just look at the first eight bars of four and see what we can find out about the chord changes themselves.

They're going to cause us a little bit of struggle.

So when I take a look at this particular tune, the first problem I see is we have this E flat major seventh chord. It's the one chord. We're in the key of concert E flat major. And it lasts

for two bars, right? So my first question that I'm having is what do I play over top of this

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