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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friends, what's up? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the Learned Jazz Standards podcast. We're answering your jazz and music related questions five times a week so you can have more fun than ever playing jazz and just have a good time playing music because that's really what it's all about. Welcome to another fast track Friday where I'm sharing with you one strategy, especially based on the content

of this week's questions in the episodes that's been working for our students. We talked a lot

about improvisation this week, right?

Like the notes that we can play, you know, music theory ideas for how we can play better solos.

And so I want to talk about something that has been working for my students and is actually

something in our inner circle that I talk all the time about. And there's

oftentimes we, we have lots of musicians in the inner circle and they're posting, they're

playing in our community. And you'll see me oftentimes give a lot of this feedback, which is,

hey, your solos sound a little bit short and choppy. What I'd love for you to do is play longer flowing eighth note lines.

So, for example, someone's solo might sound like this.

Music Right. Kind of shorter, chopier phrases. And honestly, that can be an okay way to start a solo, right? That can be an okay thing to do. But when you really listen to jazz musicians and what they're doing, you know, they might be playing softer, broken up phrases. I'm really thinking a lot about right now Sonny Rollins solo on St. Thomas. Go check it out after this episode, if you never heard it before. But it really starts out very rhythmically.

Lots of broken up phrases like this.

But then all of a sudden, Sunny Rollins breaks out into a longer flowing eighth note line, right?

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