Quick Win: Perfect BEBOP Minor BLUES Solo
Learn Jazz Standards Podcast
Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by the Learned Jazz Standards Inner Circle. |
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| 0:29.5 | That's LJSinnerCircle.com or find the link in the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. |
| 0:36.6 | How do you craft amazing bebop lines over a minor |
| 0:38.8 | blues so that you sound like a jazz pro? I'm going to walk you through the perfect minor blues |
| 0:43.6 | solo coming right up. What's up, Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards, so what musicians just like |
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| 0:51.9 | you play. Welcome another quick win episode of the podcast where we do all kinds of jazz standards tutorials, theory tutorials, as well as jazz improv tutorials, like in today's episode. So make sure you subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, so you never miss out on anything going on here. So I'm going to show you this incredible minor Bebop jazz solo, and I'm going to walk you through what makes it so awesome and how you can apply accelerator course in our inner circle membership. |
| 1:42.8 | So let's go ahead and jump right into this solo here. |
| 1:46.0 | Let's start out right here over this D minor. |
| 1:48.0 | And I think it's important that we look and see what's actually the chords in a D minor blues. |
| 1:53.0 | So we have D minor seven for one bar, |
| 1:56.0 | E minor seven, flat five, A7 to D minor seven. |
| 2:00.0 | That's a two five one. |
| 2:02.1 | And then we go two five, two four, right? |
| 2:05.7 | That's what the blues is all about. |
| 2:06.9 | It's about that one four or five relationship. |
| 2:09.0 | So the G minor and then back, two five to the one chord the d minor then we do this b minor |
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