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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. Hey, everybody. This is Brent from Learn Jazz Standards, and you're listening to the Learn

Jazz Standards podcast, our very first episode. We're going to go ahead and give this a try, and we want to hear

from you. If this is the kind of content that you want to see us do more of, if you enjoy this,

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below and give us some feedback. So today I want to talk about a very important topic,

and this is four habits to better practicing. As a musician, practicing is the most important thing.

I think we can all agree that if we're not practicing, if we're not striving to get better,

then we just simply won't get better.

So practicing is such an important thing.

And one thing that I always tell my students is as a teacher, it's more important that I teach

them how to practice well than actually give them more information. Sometimes information is just

information until you can actually apply it and work it and make it turn into something fruitful and useful.

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