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So you're in the middle of your solo and you're playing

all the notes. You think you're playing the changes. You're getting swept away. And then all of a sudden

you realize, I don't know where I am in the song. This horrible feeling in the pit of your stomach

comes up and you feel embarrassed. You know, you don't even know what you're doing. You're starting

playing random notes. You're getting just flustered. You know, all these things are coming about. You just don't know where you are in the

song anymore. Somehow you got lost. And so the big question is, how can we avoid this from happening?

How can we avoid getting lost when we're playing jazz standards, when we're improvising our solos, and how do we

set ourselves up for success so that this does not happen to you ever again? Well, that's exactly

what we're going to talk about in today's episode, and we're going to go over seven questions

to ask yourself if you're doing these things or not to help you avoid this mistake.

All right?

Let's do this thing.

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