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So how do we play sick, bluesy licks over top of

minor 251 core progressions? Well, I'm going to show you a very simple tool to make this

really easy. Coming right up. What's up, Brent, here from Learned Jazz Standards. We help musicians

just like you learn how to play jazz, all while shortening the learning curve,

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So this simple tool for really spicing up your jazz lines

and playing really bluesy stuff over minor 251 chord progressions

is something we call tritone substitution.

But before we get to tritone substitution and exactly how to utilize it in order to get that

bluesy sound, let's talk about what a minor 251 core progression is in concert C minor.

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