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October 2020 is Minor Blues Month here on the Learn Jazz Standards podcast, where I'm going

to be going over three strategies for improvising over a minor blues, followed by the final

episode four of the series, where I'm going to give you my plan for mastering a minor blues.

Now, today's episode is strategy number one,

where we're going to be talking about using the minor pentatonic and the blues scale.

And what's going to be kind of fun about this series is each strategy is going to go over something new,

a new kind of approach to the minor blues.

But I'm going to be composing a solo,

just a 12 bar minor blues solo today on the show, only using those tools.

And in the next episode, I'm going to be taking that exact same solo, but changing it and

morphing it up a little bit to add the new strategy.

And then the next episode,

strategy number three, adding more to the solo to start developing it and making it more complex.

So this is going to be a really fun series. Stay tuned. Let's do this thing.

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