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Now, on to today's episode.

This is the Learn Jazz Standards podcast, episode 72.

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 all right what's up

everybody my name is brent i'm the jazz musician behind learn jazz standards dot com welcome to another

episode of the ljs podcast so excited you're here and as always I always like to welcome those of you that are listening

for the first time to the show. And if you are all about becoming a better jazz musician and are

looking for jazz tips, advice, and just ways to become better and improve, you are in the

right place and you are among good company. Thanks for being here. Thanks for listening.

And on today's episode 72, I have an incredibly awesome special guest coming on the show today.

And that is Dr. Noah Kagayama from the Bulletproof Musician.com. He is a performance psychologist

and he teaches at the Juilliard School of Music here in New York City.

And he's here to talk to us all about how to overcome performance anxiety and quiet the inner critic that we have in our head.

Now, obviously, when it comes to becoming a better musician of any kind, it's all about

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