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In my courses and in my inner circle membership,

there are certain students that I notice get a lot farther, a lot faster in their jazz playing.

And I find that these particular students have certain personality traits that the other

students may or may not have or just haven't yet fully utilized to their benefit.

So in today's episode, what I want to do is go over the five personality traits that I

notice and my most successful jazz students.

See if you have those personality traits as well as if you can start adopting some of them

to improve and have more success in your jazz playing in the future.

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 Learn Jazz Standards, where we help musicians just like you learn how to play jazz all while shortening the learning curve, no matter what instrument you play.

Welcome to another episode of the podcast where we're going to be talking about these five personality traits of my most

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