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Now, on to today's episode.

One thing that's become clear to me over the years,

getting to know the community here at Learn Jazz Standards, is that a big reason that a lot of us

play music and a lot of us play jazz is because of that infectious joy that it brings to our

everyday lives. Like, there's just something about music, and I would say especially jazz,

that just give

you this sense of freedom and this real sense of accomplishment as long as you view it as a journey

and something to be constantly learning from. And so I want to introduce to you today a really

special guest, someone who was an alumni of my 30 Steps to Better Jazz playing course and a podcast listener, Shirley Jansen,

who is just someone that gives a lot of great energy, someone who really exudes the joy of music,

exudes the joy of learning. And we're going to get inside of her head how she learns best,

what she's doing in the practice room, and what she is doing to continually

improve as a jazz musician.

Let's crush this thing.

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