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All right. Hey, what's up, everybody? Welcome to the show. My name is Brent, and you're listening to the LJS podcast. This is the podcast where you get your weekly jazz tips, interviews, stories, and advice for becoming a better jazz musician. And I want to thank you, as always, if you are a regular listener, thanks for listening back.

And if you're a brand new listener, especially want to welcome me today, whether you're listening from our home base on learn jazz standards.com or you're listening on iTunes or any other podcast listening service, super appreciate having you today.

And on today's episode 54, our topic today is how to organize balanced jazz

practice sessions. And we're going to be answering the question of how to organize these balanced

practice sessions. And also, it's going to be answering the question of what should jazz musicians

be spending time in the practice room working on in general?

And what do I mean by balanced practice sessions?

Now, have you ever worked out, gone to the gym, done any bodybuilding or muscle lifting?

I'm personally a runner myself.

But what they don't do is they don't go to the gym and only do upper body exercises or only do lower body exercises.

If they did that, they would be disproportionate, right? Their bodies would look strange and funny and

misshaped. And they spread out their workouts. They do, you know, upper body workouts one day.

They do lower body workouts the next day. And as musicians, as jazz musicians, it's kind of the same thing. We want to be getting balanced practice sessions. So that's what this episode's all about today. I'm going to talk to you a lot more about that. Now, just really quickly, if you've been listening to this show for a while and you get value out of this show, one great way that you can give back to us is really simple.

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