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This is the Learned Jazz Standards podcast, episode

115. Welcome to the LJS podcast, where you get weekly jazz tips, interviews, stories,

and advice for becoming a better jazz musician. And now your host. He's a jazz musician,

author, and entrepreneur, Brent Bartstra.

Check, check it out. What's up? My name is Brent. I'm the jazz musician behind learn jazz

standards.com, which is a blog, a podcast, and videos all geared towards helping you become a better

jazz musician. Hey, welcome everybody, whether this is your

first time ever listening to the show or if you're a regular listener, I want to thank you so

much. I appreciate you for just being here, hanging out with me, and taking a little time out

of your week just to learn alongside of me. And so I appreciate it. I don't take it for granted. And on

today's episode 115, I did have an episode planned that was more music theory based, but it got me

thinking since we had such a heavy music theory episode last week, which was an awesome episode,

by the way, 114 with Dan Carrillo, special guest

Dan Carillo talking about minor tonality. Such a great episode, but a heady episode. And as I was

thinking about today's episode, I thought, it would be great to talk about how to balance

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