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Now, on to today's episode.

All right, Magalie, can you say hello to the podcast listeners today?

Oh, don't grab the microphone. That's expensive. Can you say, hi, podcast listeners?

Hi. Yeah, hi. Okay, let's get on to the show now. Have you ever heard this saying before that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting different results, right?

We've heard that before.

Well, I often think about that in terms of friction.

Like what friction are we experiencing and our jazz playing and our musicianship that we keep leaning into, that we keep just accepting.

And instead of reducing that friction, we just keep doing the same thing over and over and over

again, but yet are expecting our jazz playing and our musicianship to improve.

Well, today I want to be talking about that.

How to avoid friction in your jazz playing, your jazz improvement, and what we can do to start

recognizing it.

Let's do this thing.

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