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Do you ever get that feeling when you're looking at

your instrument sitting there in the corner and you just don't feel like picking it up?

It's kind of a strange feeling because deep inside, you're excited about music and jazz and you

want to improve and, you know, you have that idea of practicing, but then when you actually

go to do it there's some

kind of resistance there and sometimes the reason that is is because practicing can sometimes be

boring that is if you practice in a boring way so in today's episode we're going to talk about

five ways to make practice not boring so that you're having fun when you go to pick up your instrument and learn new things.

Let's talk about that.

Okay. All right, my friends, what's up, Brett here from Learn Jazz Standards. We help musicians learn how to play jazz, all while shortening the learning curve, no matter what instrument you play.

I am a jazz coach. I am all about

helping others learn how to play jazz, learn how to play music, and have more fun than ever doing it.

And that's exactly what we're talking about today. How do we actually have fun when we practice?

You know, sometimes when we think back to practice,

it comes back to our childhood a little bit. Many of us, you know, grew up where our parents

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