Quick Win: Tasty Minor Bebop Altered Lick
Learn Jazz Standards Podcast
Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:34.8 | 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 |
| 1:28.3 | 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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