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Now, on to today's episode.

I recently ran a poll of over 2,000 musicians playing

all sorts of instruments over on our YouTube channel. And the question was, what do you find

most challenging about jazz improvisation? And here were the options that we gave. A, was creating

melodic and cohesive solos. B, was understanding and applying jazz theory during improvisation. C, was creating melodic and cohesive solos. B was understanding and applying jazz theory during improvisation.

C was developing a strong sense of timing and rhythmic feel.

D was building confidence to take risk and explore new ideas.

And E was spontaneously connecting with other players during jazz jams.

I'm about to reveal to you the answer

and which one of those was the biggest challenge

for musicians in this poll,

as well as go through each five of these

and give you actual strategies to improve on them.

Let's do this thing.

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