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Now, on to today's episode.

If you're a long-term listener of the Learned Jazz

Standards podcast, today's subject is probably not something that you haven't heard before

from me. But this is one of my favorite topics to talk about. And no, it's not a sexy episode.

It's not learning the next music theory trick. It's not you'll learn a new solo by the time you

end this episode. It's not a pl learn a new solo by the time you end

this episode. It's not a plethora of other things that I notice that a lot of people love to

listen to and for good reasons because they are great things. However, today's episode is really

about getting down to the bottom of why you're actually learning jazz, defining your why,

why you want to actually be doing this

so that if you're tapping into that at all times, it'll motivate you to keep going further.

And then after that, defining your actual goals.

Now, if you don't think this is important, I hope that by the end of this episode, you will be

convinced because I do believe that this is the number one thing that can move

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