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

here of the podcast where I'm answering your jazz and music questions five days a week to help

you have more fun playing music and just improve at jazz faster, right? Like start playing those

jazz solos of your dreams faster. Get up there at the

jam sessions. Get up there playing. Have a lot of fun. That's what this is all about here. Today we have a

great question from one of our inner circle members named Arjun, who's a trombone player. And he asked,

do you have a good way of dealing with stage fright, both in the sense of performing

in front of other people, but also in front of your musical peers?

Okay, this is a great question.

How do we deal with stage fright?

Now, if you're listening right now, I can pretty much guarantee that you have suffered from stage fright, aka performance anxiety, at some point. And I'm also willing to bet that you've suffered from these things before in both of the ways that Arjun just mentioned, which are, yes, the stage fright,

quote and quote of playing in front of other people, performing, maybe it's a jam session or a

gig, you know, there's an audience out there and you're worried about it's screwing up in front

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