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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, what's up, everybody? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast. It's another fast track Friday. That's where I look back at this week's questions and share a strategy that's worked for me and my students that can help you with all the stuff and the general kind of things we've

been discussing this week. And so this week on Fast Track Friday, I want to talk about how do we

develop our own sound? How do we develop our own sound and some strategies that you can start implementing or some ideas to get

you thinking about doing this. I want to talk about this because we spent a lot of time this week

talking about improvisation, right, and phrasing, like how do we phrase our lines? How do we play

rhythms in jazz? How do pianists and guitars play together?

How do we, yesterday we talked about how do we play more creative ideas, right? So all this stuff,

like, how do we start playing the way we want to play? That's really what it gets me thinking

about. And we all want to develop our own sound, right? We, we, we want to feel like, you know, when we listen to Sunny Rollins, we know it's Sunny Rollins or Sunny Stitt, we know it's Sunny Stitt, Dizzy Gillespie. We know it's Dizzy Gillespie, right? And we want to have that, too. Ultimately, we do. And even if it's your goal, you're like, I want to sound just like Bill 11s. Unfortunately, my friend you're like i want to sound just like bill

evans unfortunately my friend you're never going to sound just like bill evans right you're

probably get a lot of essences of bill evans um someone might be able to tell that you're

influenced by bill evans but you'll never sound just like bill evans right so we all want to be

developing a bit of our own sound in improvisation and in jazz or even

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