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This is the Learn Jazz Standards podcast, episode

83. 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.

What's up, everybody? My name is Brent. I am the jazz musician behind the website,

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

better jazz musician. I'm really excited you here and I

appreciate you coming to hang out with me today. As always, special welcome to those who are

listening for the first time and also for those who are regular listeners, you guys keep this

thing going round and I appreciate you so much and I'm really excited to serve you on today's

episode 83, which is all about a

special simple exercise that actually helps us improve three different things all at the same

time. Time feel, rhythmic feel, and our technique. And I think it's a great exercise and the

reason I'm inspired to teach this today is because of a call I received on our podcast questions hotline. We'll listen to that in a second and discuss it. But I'm excited to teach you this today. I think this is one of those episodes where you can just have one takeaway to practice to work on this week. You know, I know a lot of times with these episodes, you know, sometimes there's a lot of information in each. There's a lot of meat to it and just a lot packed in there. But today is one of those episodes where you can just listen to it and, you know, really get the idea of it and actually go and take something with you to actually work on this week. So, you know, not being distracted by too many

things. So I think this is a value-packed episode just for that reason. Now, it's been such a big

week in Learn Jazz standards. I mean, you guys know that if you've been following the podcast for a while,

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