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Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards.

Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast.

I'm here answering your jazz and music questions five days a week to help you have more fun

than ever playing music and to shorten the learning curve in your jazz journey.

And we have another great question today on the show. This one comes from

Robert Banagay. Let's give it a listen. Hi, Brian. Quick question. On a previous podcast, you

touched on the importance of, you know, being able to play your instrument, you know, the basics,

if you will. Let's say you're in a zone where, you know, you haven't played for a long time,

you're picking up the instrument after many years.

It seems to me that, you know, I need to improve on my technical proficiency, but that doesn't mean I

can't just jump in and start learning jazz standards, right? Like, I can kind of do both at the same

time. Could you discuss how one might go about doing that when they need a little bit of technical fluency, but also want to jump in and

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