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Now, on to today's episode.

There are many ways to go about learning jazz

standards and memorizing them and also improvising over them. And one way that people like to

start learning jazz standards and figuring out how to improvise over them better is through

analysis, analyzing the core changes to a jazz standard, putting certain theoretical labels on

things such as relative minor, parallel minor, all these things that maybe you've heard in the

jazz theory world before.

But why would you do it?

Why is it important to do?

Is it even helpful?

Well, this was a question that was asked in my monthly jazz mastermind, which is a Q&A call that we do in my inner circle membership.

And I thought this was a great question.

So we're going to answer that in today's episode.

All right.

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