[Strategy #3] Sky-rocketing a Minor Blues with Bebop Language
Learn Jazz Standards Podcast
Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by the Learned Jazz Standards Inner Circle. |
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| 0:29.5 | That's LJSinnerCircle.com or find the link in the show notes. |
| 0:34.8 | Now, on to today's episode. |
| 0:36.8 | It's episode three of minor blues month here on the |
| 0:39.2 | Learn Jazz Standards podcast, where I've been going over three strategies for improvising over |
| 0:44.9 | a minor blues, an important song form in jazz. And the last episode, of course, in number four, |
| 0:50.6 | next week is going to be all about my strategy, my plan for mastering, quote, |
| 0:55.0 | unquote, a minor blues. But in today's episode, we're going to be talking about strategy |
| 0:59.3 | number three, which is all about bebop language in applying that over a blues. We've been |
| 1:04.7 | composing an atude. We've applied blues language. We've applied core tones and scales. |
| 1:10.2 | Now we're going to take that same |
| 1:12.2 | atude and add some bebop into it and it's going to be really awesome. All right, ready to do this. |
| 1:17.8 | Here we go. Welcome to the LJS podcast where you get weekly jazz tips, interviews, stories, |
| 1:25.5 | and advice for becoming a better jazz musician. |
| 1:28.7 | And now your host. |
| 1:30.1 | He's a jazz musician, author, and entrepreneur, Brent Bartstra. |
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