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I personally like the idea of improvisation being

composing sped up. In the inverse of that, composing being improvisation slowed down, right? And if we

want to become a great improviser, sometimes that seems magical. You hear some of your favorite jazz

musicians just playing the stuff and how do they come up with

those ideas.

Well, I think that a great way to get to that point is by slowing that process down and

becoming a great composer, figuring out how to compose your own jazz lines, your own jazz

solos, your own concepts so that the more you do that, the more naturally

that will come out when you speed it up in an improvisation standpoint improvisation setting.

So in today's episode, we're going to take a little tool called Target Notes, and we're going to

compose some lines using Target Notes over the jazz standard.

There will never be another you. Let's jump to it. we're going to compose some lines using target notes over the jazz standard.

There will never be another you.

Let's jump to it.

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