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

Welcome to another episode of the podcast where I am answering your jazz and music-related

questions five days a week, here to help you become better jazz musician, here to help

you have more fun than ever playing music.

That's what this whole thing is all about.

And today we have an awesome question from Ben Collis.

Let's give it a listen.

My question is about playing pianistically, how to play pianistically, why it's good,

obviously both for piano and guitar, but applied to other instruments

if and were pertinent. And I guess the first steps of doing it, you know, why it's good to do it,

how to begin, how guitarists have to use smoke and mirrors, the illusion of things, because

they've just got the six strings, chord tones

might be on the same string, etc. How to be efficient, how to imply chords, how to switch

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