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Now, on to today's episode.

On the podcast today, we are concluding our three

week challenge to learn a jazz tune by ear, where I've been walking you through a simple

process and holding your hand through it so that by the end of this three week series, not only

you have been able to learn the jazz tune by ear, no sheet music included, but also have some tools

to solo over this tune. And so far, we've learned the melody by ear. We've learned the chords by ear.

You should know those if you've been following along with the series. Today's episode,

I'm actually going to help you learn a solo, just a one-core solo over top of this jazz tune,

and we're going to kind of compose one

on the spot, and then I'm going to give you a challenge to compose your own once you've seen

the process that I go through. So hopefully it's to be very insightful and enlightening.

Looking forward to this, let's crush 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,

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