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Now, on to today's episode.

This is the Learned Jazz Standards podcast, episode

105. 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, hey, what's up?

My name is Brent.

I'm the jazz musician behind the website, learn jazz standards.com, which is a blog, a podcast, and videos,

all geared towards helping you become a better jazz musician.

That's right.

I just said videos.

Now we're coming out with weekly videos on YouTube and on our blog. So if you have not subscribed to our YouTube channel,

go to YouTube.com forward slash learn jazz standards. Every Thursday, we're coming out with

new video jazz tutorials, tips, and advice. So this podcast, it's obviously not going anywhere, but if you want to enjoy a little bit of that content too, you can. All right, hey, listen, I'm so excited that you're here. I'm really amped up. I'm really thankful that you're spending part of your day listening to Me Talk. And I hope that in return, I can give you as much value as possible and help you become a better jazz musician, even if it's in just some small way. So thank you so much for listening. Now, last week, we had our two-year birthday episode, episode 104, which we had 11 special guests, listeners like you on the show to give us their tips and advice. And I really enjoyed that show. If you haven't listened to that one, you know, after you're done listening to this one, listen back to that one. That was so special and really important. But now we're starting a new month. And if you've been listening to this show for a while, you know that sometimes I like to do themed months. And so for this month, we are going to be doing Jazz Standards Month. It is Jazz Standards month for the month of March on the podcast,

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