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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. Hey, what's going on, everybody, Brian here from Learned Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the Learned Jazz Standards podcast. Really excited to be here with you today. This is where I'm answering your jazz and music questions five days a week to help you have more fun than ever playing music and to shorten your learning curve in your jazz journey. Have another great question today from Joss Martin Swinkles. Let's give it a listen.

Okay, here's my question. Hello, my name is Joss Martin Swinkles from Greece. And my question is,

Brent, you've been saying that when you're improvising, you shouldn't really be thinking about what

you're playing, but you should just play what comes out,ising, you shouldn't really be thinking about what you're playing, but you

should just play what comes out, what, you know, what comes into you at that moment. On the other

hand, when we're learning standards, we're supposed to learn the chord progressions. So now I'm a

little bit confused. I can understand that it's very important to learn the core progression

of a standard. But my question is, when you're at a jam session and you're playing an

improvisation solo, should you really be thinking of that chord progression at that moment?

Because then a lot of freedom of the solo will be gone.

So please, a little bit of clarification on this.

Thanks.

That's a great question.

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