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My friends, what is the one thing that you can do

this month for your jazz playing that if you accomplish this one thing will make everything

else exponentially easier or no longer even necessary? That's what I want to talk about today.

What is that one thing for you that you can do in your jazz playing? Let's do this thing.

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 everybody? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. What musicians just

like you learn how to play jazz all while shortening in the learning curve, no matter what

instrument you play. Welcome to another episode of the podcast where we're going to be talking

about that one thing. And yeah, when I say one, I'm really actually talking about one thing. What is the one

thing that you can do this month in your jazz playing that if you do this one thing, you accomplish

this goal, it'll make everything else exponentially easier as far as your goals for playing jazz standards,

improvising over jazz standards, being a better musician. And this concept kind of came to prominence

for me years ago when I read this book called The One Thing by Gary Keller. Some of you

might be familiar with that particular book. But it's something that kind of came to my mind again this week

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