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If you've ever felt overwhelmed by jazz improvisation

and unsure of where to get started, today I'm going to show you exactly how it works. Make it simple

so that you get headed in the right direction coming up. What's up? Breton here from Learned 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.

By the way, there's also a video version of this podcast over at learn jazz standards.com.

But if you're listening audio, you'll be able to understand everything just fine.

So let's get it right to it.

Okay, so if you're a beginner or someone who's been looking on the sidelines on getting

into jazz, it can seem a little bit overwhelming, frustrating, overly complicated.

So what I want to do for you today is break things down into simple terms and give you essential

building blocks that will help you start improvising today.

So in order to do that, let's look at this core progression, which is

D minor 7, G7, C major 7. And it sounds like this.

Okay. Now, this is what we call a 2.5.1 in the key of C major. Okay, a 251 in the key of C major.

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