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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right. What's going on, everybody, Brett here from Learned Jazz Standards. Welcome to another

episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast. I am 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.

We have another great question here on the podcast. This one is from Kevin Mummy. Let's

give it a listen. Hi, we spend a lot of time listening to our great jazz heroes, but in terms of

our daily practice, how do we straddle the line between imitating and innovating? Thanks.

This is a great question. So every single jazz educator I've ever known and probably that

you've ever known has probably told you before that you should be imitating the jazz greats.

And when they say that, they mean yes, you should be listening to the jazz grates.

You should be copying what they're doing. You should be learning their solos. Sometimes people

use the term transcribing, so on and so forth. That's like sort of the paramount of importance

upon learning jazz and playing jazz. And that is absolutely what should

be a huge part of your practice. And that all goes back to the whole idea that that music is a

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