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Now, on to today's episode.

In today's episode, we're going to do a little

thought experiment that will help us get in the mindset that we need to be to play melodies

and solos creatively and at the top of our game, to take a boring expression of a melody and truly turn it into something

that is riveting for the audience and riveting for ourselves. Let's do this thing.

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.

Hey, what's up, everybody?

Brent here from Learn Jazz standards, what musicians just like you learn how to play jazz,

all while shortening the learning curve no matter what instrument

you play welcome to another episode of the podcast so excited to be here today so want to talk to you

really quickly about one of our members in our inner circle membership now recently we've been

studying the jazz standard called but Not for Me. Okay,

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