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Thank you. the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. So as you can hear, I'm laying here on the beach in Greece,

visiting my wife's family on vacation.

And, you know, there's not going to be any intro music today.

There's not going to be a music theory lesson.

There's not going to be, you know, a practice routine that I'm going to share with you.

I'm not going to be taking out my guitar or I'm not going to be doing any of those things today.

Because today is just an episode where I want to talk about taking a break.

Taking a break from playing jazz.

And, of course, I mean taking a break from our everyday lives, of course.

But in specific, I want to talk today about taking a break from playing music and why you should do that. And, you know, that's exactly

what I'm doing right now. Well, at least at the time you're listening to this episode,

that's exactly what I'm doing right now. You know, I haven't been thinking about jazz. I haven't

been thinking about music. I haven't been thinking about, you know, where I want to be with my playing. I haven't been thinking about music. I haven't been thinking about where I want to be with my playing. I haven't been thinking about the fact that, you know,

I want to practice something. I'm not thinking about that gig that I wish I'd played better on.

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