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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. What's going on, everybody, Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of

the Learn Jazz Standards podcast. I'm here 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 a great question from one of our long time inner circle members.

Her name is Suez. Let's give a listen to the question. Hello, Suez here. I'm after some

tips and advice for working on phrasing when improvising. Would you say best way to work on this is really learning those atudes we do each month

in our jazz standard study group in the inner circle by E and also other solos and

approaches of jazz musicians?

Yes.

The answer is yes.

And we could just end the episode here, but we won't do that. So here's the thing. I get this question actually quite a bit. How do I get better at jazz phrasing? Right. How do I get better at jazz phrasing? Let's talk. What is jazz phrasing in the first place? Right. It's the way in which you would go about performing or executing a musical line in a jazz

context, whether it be, you know, the actual note choices, but mostly we're thinking about

rhythmically and does it go over the bar line? When do we start the phrases? When do we end the

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