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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friends, what's up? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards.

Welcome to another episode of the podcast, the last podcast episode of this week.

And we are doing our fast track Friday episode today.

That's where I look back at all the different questions that were asked this week and go over a strategy that's been

helping my students and has definitely worked for myself in the past. So this week on the podcast,

we had a lot of really great conversations. We talked about bebop scales. We talked about analyzing

core changes to construct solos. We talked about how much we need to

practice to get great at jazz. We asked the question, did jazz greats use music theory? Was that an

important part of their musical development? And within all these episodes, I mentioned this idea of music theory and scales and constructs as

being only one element of creating great solos.

And one of the shortcomings of music theory and scales and so on and so forth is the patternistic and linear approach to them

and the left brain analytical thinking side and we've talked about past weeks here on the

podcast this problem of connecting organic ideas and how do we get from playing licks and solos and scales to actually creating

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