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Now, on to today's episode.

If you'll listen to these podcasts for a while,

you may have heard me say before that recording your jazz playing is a great idea, but I probably

haven't really dug deep into why recording your jazz playing can actually have exponential

benefits as far as you getting a lot out of your practice sessions and speeding up the progress of your

jazz improv, jazz comping skills in general. So in this episode, we're going to dive into that.

We're going to go over six reasons why recording yourself is going to be really helpful for you

in your jazz playing, as well as some tips for recording yourself at the end. 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 everybody? Brent here from Learned 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 back to another episode of the podcast. I hope you're doing well,

my friends. Always excited to be here. And we're talking about

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