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episode 166: Simplifying Jazz Standards to Make Them Easy (Tune Up Analysis)
Welcome to episode 166 of the LJS Podcast where we kick off "Jazz Standards Month."
This month we are exploring jazz standards and digging into different concepts to see how we can learn, understand, and improvise over them better.
In this episode, I go over the jazz standard Tune-Up by Miles Davis, and demonstrate how to simplify these chord changes to make them easier to understand.
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