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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. Hey, what's everybody, Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards. Welcome to the episode of the Learned

Standards podcast and another fast track Friday here on the show, which is where I look back at

some of the episodes that have come up in the past week and look for common themes and and trends and or something that just hasn't

been covered quite yet and expand on that and give you a strategies or thoughts about how you

can prove in that particular area. We talked a lot about practicing this week, right? And of course,

we talk a lot about practicing every single week. But when we're

talking about performing and getting ready to improvise and all that stuff, one thing that comes up

a lot and something I've noticed in a lot of musicians is those who are able to stay motivated

to practice for the long term are the ones that make exponential

progress, right?

Now, that might seem intuitive and obvious to some of you that, like, yeah, if you practice

for a long time, then you are going to improve over time.

Obviously, it's the motivation factor that I think is the

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