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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, all right, all right. What's going on, everybody? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast where we're here answering your jazz and music questions five days a week to help you have more fun than ever playing music. And of course, do shorten the learning curve in your jazz journey. As always, this has been a great week of podcast episodes,

and today we have another great question. This one comes from Patrick LeBlanc. Let's give it a

listen. Hi, Brent. This is Patrick from Quebec, Canada. My question is about walking

baselines in jazz standards. So what does it mean to

swing exactly when you're mostly playing quarter notes? That's kind of a mystery to me. If I'm told

that I'm not swinging enough, what can I do about it if I mostly play on the beat anyway, right?

As I understand, the swing field is felt in the subdivisions.

So does it mean that I need to add the notes or add maybe rhythmic embellishments

between those quarter notes to kind of highlight the swing field?

So what does it mean exactly? Thank you.

This is a really good question. And of course, it's important for me to point out here that

I am personally not a base player, but I can 100% speak to how to swing your walking baselines

here just from, of course, you know, having worked on walking baselines myself,

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