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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friends, what's up? Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards. Welcome to the episode

of the podcast where I'm answering your jazz and music questions five days a week to help you have

more fun than ever playing music and to shorten the learning curve in your jazz journey. We have a great

question today from Tiago Leite. Let's give it a listen. Hi, Brent. Welcome back. My name is Tiago.

I'm a saxophone player. I've been playing for around four years now. And my question is regarding

contra-effects. So I was just wondering if learning and perhaps composing my own contra-effects, in which ways it could benefit me in my jazz improvisation, and also how should I go about composing contra-facts?

What are some nuggets of wisdom that you could share?

Specifically because I know that like when I searched on Google for this topic,

actually a video of yours from 2019 was the number one result, but it's a very brief video

and maybe you can elaborate more on this topic. So yeah. Thank you and

looking forward to hearing more. All right. That's great question. Contrafacts. Let's catch everybody

up who doesn't understand what a contra fact is. A contra fact is a new melody written over an

existing set of chord changes. Okay. So the greatest example of a contra fact is a new melody written over an existing set of chord changes.

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