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All right. Hey, what's up, everybody?

My name is Brent, your host of the LJS podcast. And you're listening to episode

28 where we're going to be talking about our jazz challenge number three, which is write your own jazz solo.

We've been doing a four-part series of jazz challenges leading up to our first ever e-course in October 2016 for those listening from the future, which is called 30 Days to Better Jazz Playing.

I'm going to talk about that in just one second.

But if you've missed any of the other jazz challenges we've done before, our first jazz challenge was write your own contrafact.

In our second jazz challenge in last episode's 27 was to practice the blues in all 12 keys, I highly encourage you to go back to those challenges if you haven't taken them yet and delve into them.

These are really great practices for any

jazz musician to do, even any musician of any genre, seeking to play any genre. These are great

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