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Now, on to today's episode.

Chances are some of your favorite jazz musicians

and the amazing solos that they play are influenced by the style of jazz that emerged around the

1940s called Bebop. Now, Bebop was pioneered by musicians like Charlie Parker and Z. Gillespie

and a host of others with tunes like Moose the Mooch, Relax in Camarillo,

anthropology, ornithology. The list goes on and on, all these amazing tunes that are just wonderful

and just the amazing solos that came out of this period. But you may have noticed that playing

bebop is quite difficult. It's a virtuastic style of

music. It's very hard, but we need to know how to play bebop lines in order to improvise as a jazz

musician in a way that is typical of the dialect that is played today. So, in today's episode,

I have very special guest member of Team

LJS, Brett Ponte Corvo on the show to talk about the three pillars of BBOP so we can understand

it better and you can start soloing over it better as well. Let's do this thing.

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