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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. Hey, hey, my friends, Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the Learned

Add Standards podcast, the last episode of the week and our Fast Track Friday episode where I look

back at this week's episodes and see some common trends and themes and come up with a great strategy

for you that's been working for me and my students

that you can take away as well. Well, this week on the podcast, one thing that really stood out

to me a lot was the idea of how do we get good at playing jazz, even if we don't have our

instrument around. In other words, how can we practice away from our instrument?

And I talked a lot about the idea of listening to jazz and how simply by listening to jazz,

we can improve.

And so I want to go a little bit further with that today and give you a little bit of a strategy

for how to deeply listen to jazz music

to not only learn from it, but also enjoy it a lot more. Because when it comes down to it,

jazz is it's really a music that's worth listening deeply to, right? There's more to it than

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