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Now, on to today's episode.

So what are the most important scales that will help

you improvise over jazz standards? Let's talk about that. What's up, Brent here from Learned

Jazz Standards. Hope musicians, just like you, learn how to play jazz all while shortening the

learning curve, no matter what instrument you play. Welcome to another quick-went episode of the

podcast where we do episodes like this where we talk about music theory and jazz

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episode that happens here so when i talk about scales i like to keep things very simple so i'm just

going to be going over what i consider to be the most important scales over the five qualities

of seventh chords seventh chords being the most common chords in jazz five qualities of seventh chords, seventh chords being

the most common chords in jazz standards.

And rather than just listing them off for you one at a time, we're going to use the song

Stella by Starlight as an example.

Stella sounds like this. But I do want you to stick around to the very end of the video where I'm going to give a very important disclaimer about scales and show you how you can start making scales actually musical. So stick around to the very end.

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