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Learn Jazz Standards Podcast

Quick Win: Tasty Minor Bebop Altered Lick

Learn Jazz Standards Podcast

Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur

Music Commentary, Jazz, Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Saxophone, Jazz Theory, Jazz Bass, Jazz Piano, Education, Music, Jazz Guitar, Jazz Solo, Jazz Standards, Jazz Trumpet, How To

4.8536 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Today I'm going to show you a tasty jazz lick that's going to make you sound like a bebop pro over minor 2-5-1 chord progressions. In this episode: 1. What's a minor 2-5-1 2. How to get that bebop sound 3. What a Minor Bebop Altered Lick sounds like 4. What makes this lick so great 5. What are target notes 6. Importance of 3rds 7. Importance of 7ths 8. The altered notes 9. Tips for learning the altered lick Important Links: 1. Subscribe to the Podcast: - Apple Podcasts - Spoti...

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Now, on to today's episode.

0:36.6

Today I'm going to show you a tasty jazz

0:38.6

lick that's going to make you sound like a bebop pro over minor 251 core progressions.

0:44.5

Let's do this thing. What's up, Brent, here from Learn Jazz Standards, where we help musicians

0:51.1

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

0:55.3

no matter what instrument you play. Welcome to another quick win episode of the podcast where we do

1:00.9

episodes on jazz theory, jazz practicing, deep dives into jazz standards, or just like this

1:07.0

episode, deep dives into jazz improv tips where you can learn more about soloing over

1:13.0

jazz. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts so that you never

1:17.2

miss any episode. Also, make sure you stick around to the very end where I'm going to show you

1:20.9

three ways that you can make sure that you learn this lick very deeply so that you never

1:26.3

forget it. All right, so today's lick is

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over top of a minor 251 chord progression and I'm going to teach you to you in concert C minor.

1:33.5

So first of all, what's a minor 251? It's D minor 7 flat 5 to a G7 altered chord to a C minor

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