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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, everybody, what's up? Brian here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode

of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast where I'm answering your jazz and music related questions,

five days a week so that you can have more fun playing jazz, shorten the learning curve,

and improve even faster. We have a great question asked today. This one comes from Elmer Pickett,

and let's give it a listen. Greetings. I was wondering if you could discuss hand position on the

guitar neck, sort of like an ambassure, in order to enhance ease of play and minimize injury.

Elmer, that's a really great question.

And thank you for asking it.

And I know you're asking a more guitar technique specific question, but rest assured everybody

listening here, whether you play saxophone or piano or bass or whatever, a lot of the stuff I'm about

to talk about here does apply to you. So first, let's just talk a little bit about the kind of

overarching question around the question that was just asked, which is, is your technique on your

instrument important to playing jazz well?

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