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That's LJSinnerCircle.com or find the link in the show notes. Now, on to today's episode.

Today we're going to be diving into a bebop jazz

standard looking at the harmony so that we can see what kind of improv lessons we can learn,

what kind of harmony lessons we can learn, so that we can play other jazz standards even better.

Let's do this thing. Welcome to the LJS podcast, where you get weekly jazz tips, interviews, stories, and advice for becoming a better jazz musician.

And now your host. He's a jazz musician, author, and entrepreneur, Brent Bartstra.

Hey, what's up already? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards, where we help musicians just like you learn how to play jazz all while shortening of the learning curve, no matter what instrument

you play. Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast. Absolutely love doing the show.

Always excited to dive into some music with you. I'm going to help you look into a really cool

jazz standard, one that we actually

studied last month in our inner circle membership, but I like to share it with you guys here on

the podcast because there's a lot of cool harmonic stuff that happens with this jazz standard.

And if you've been listening to the show for a while, you know that I always preach and talk about

how learning jazz standards,

understanding jazz standards better. Like, the more we do it, the easier jazz improvisation gets,

the easier learning new jazz standards gets. Just in general, learn more tunes, learn more tunes,

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