
Quick Win: Using Pentatonics for AMAZING Jazz Solos
About this episode
If you know the pentatonic or the blues scale you can actually play really amazing jazz solos using just those notes.
In this episode:
- Intro
- Demo: SOUL STIR BLUES - A jazz blues solo
- Kinds of Pentatonic Scales used in Soul Stir Blues
- How I put the solo together
- Applying rhythmic concepts
- Summary
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