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Now, on to today's episode.

I've got a question for you. Have you ever learned

a jazz lick, maybe off of a record or from some other resource? We're really excited about it,

practiced it. It's a great new idea that you can use in your jazz improv, but when it finally

came to actually applying it, maybe at a jam session, a gig, or just by yourself in a practice

jam session, you weren't really able to do it very well. It just sort of sounded contrived. You were basically copy and pasting it. Maybe you couldn't really time it right, couldn't really fit it into what you were trying to do. It just didn't sound very good, and you sort of felt like all that went to waste. Well, we don't really want to be using Licks that way. Yes, we want to learn them. We want to learn new jazz language. But how do we actually play licks and learn licks so that they come out organically in our solos? Well, that's exactly what we're going to talk about in today's episode. I'm going to teach you my lit process for learning and applying licks in your jazz improv. You're not going to miss this one.

This is a good one. So let's do this thing. Welcome to the LJS podcast, where you get weekly

jazz tips, interviews, stories, and advice for becoming a better jazz musician. And now your host.

He's a jazz musician, author, and entrepreneur, Brent Bartstra.

Hey, what's up, everybody, Brent here from LearnJazz Standards.com, which is a blog, a podcast,

and videos geared towards helping you become a better jazz musician.

That's exactly what I intend to do in today's episode, as always,

to help you improve in some place in your jazz playing. And this time around, we're talking

about licks. Now, we all love learning new licks, right? Like a new hip lick over a cool

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