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Learning jazz by ear or with sheet music, which one

is better? That's exactly what I'm going to talk about in today's episode, episode 139 of the

Learned Jazz Standards podcast. Let's do this thing. 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.

All right. Hey, what's it, everybody? My name is Brent. I am the jazz musician behind the website,

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

you become a better jazz musician. I am excited, as I always am, to come at you with another

episode to just lay down some value value to help you become a better jazz

musician. And you are in the right place if you want to become a better jazz musician.

If you just want to learn what to practice, if you want to learn some music theory,

if you want to get some motivation, that's everything that I do on this podcast, and I

enjoy doing it because I enjoy teaching. I enjoy sharing my knowledge with others, and I enjoy

having guests on this show to do that as well. And on this episode, 139, I'm going to do a little

solo episode today. And I'm going to be talking about something that I've talked about before on Learned Jazz

Standards, but not necessarily dedicated a whole episode on this podcast.

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