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Now, on to today's episode.

This is the Learned Jazz Standards podcast, episode

101. Welcome to the LJS podcast, where you get weekly jazz tips, interviews, stories,

and advice for becoming a better jazz musician. And now your host. He's a jazz musician,

author, and entrepreneur, Brent Bartstra.

What's up, everybody? My name is Brent. I am the jazz musician behind the website,

learn jazz standards.com, which is a blog and a podcast, all geared towards helping you become

a better jazz musician. Wow, I am so excited for you to be here today. Thank you so much for joining me, whether you're a regular listener or if you are listening for the very first time, welcome, and I am excited to give you as much values I can today. And in today's episode, I'm actually going to do something I've never done before, which is teach you how to play a jazz standard.

And, you know, I'm also trying to do different things on the show, try different things, see how you guys like them. And so if you like a show like this today, please let me know. That'd be awesome. Today I'm going to teach you one of my favorite jazz standards, which is my shining hour. Really, really cool, too. So I'm really excited to jump into that today. It's going to be a lot of fun.

It's going to be a lot of me playing my guitar for you.

Remember, it doesn't matter what instrument. really, really cool tune. So I'm really excited to jump into that today. It's going to be a lot of fun.

It's going to be a lot of me playing my guitar for you. Remember, it doesn't matter what instrument you play. This is for all instruments. I just happen to be a guitar player. But I'm excited to do that today. It's going to be a lot of fun. But before we get into the show today, this month, if you've been listening to the show for the last month or so, you know that this month, February of 2018,

is our birthday month. That's right. So on episode 104 coming up here, we are celebrating our two-year birthday of the podcast. The blog's been around a lot longer than that. All everything else we have, but the podcast has been around for two years, and we celebrated

episode 100 last week. I had my jazz mentor, Justin Nielsen, on the show. Man, that was an awesome episode. I've already gotten lots of awesome comments from you guys. So, you know, be sure, if you haven't listened to that one, go back to episode 100 after you listen to this episode, of course. and be sure to check that out because he really lays down the love for you guys.

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