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What are the most important music theory concepts that you need to know to make learning and improvising over jazz standards much easier? Let's talk about it. What's up, Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards, so musicians just like you, learn how to play all while shortening the learning curve, no matter what instrument you play. Make sure that you subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, so you don't miss out on anything going on here.

If your goal is to learn jazz standards and improvise over them well, I would highly recommend

using music theory to help analyze them.

Think of it as a really helpful tool for understanding and organizing the music that you're

learning.

So the first music theory concept you really need to know is secondary dominance.

So taking a look at there will never be another you,

which sounds like this.

Okay, we have a E flat major seven

that starts here. And this is what the key of the song is in. It's in concert E flat major

Now an important thing to understand about keys in jazz is the harmonic series. So if we have an E flat major scale and we harmonize it with seventh chords it goes like this it goes e flat major seven

to f minor seven to g minor seven to a flat major seven okay so then we keep going on through the rest

of the scale however what we need to know is that these are diatonic to the key center so when

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