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Now, on to today's episode.

Have you ever been going through YouTube or maybe a

podcast like this or blogs, collecting a bunch of jazz lessons, just learning a bunch of different

concepts, working on them, going to the next thing, into the next thing, to the next thing,

to the next thing. And then before you know it, you're not really quite sure what you've been

learning, what you've been doing, what

direction you're going in, you just kind of feel overwhelmed.

Or maybe here's a different scenario.

Maybe you learn a tune one week and then you learn another tune the next week and you learn

a solo for that tune.

So you keep learning a bunch of things really quickly.

Maybe you're reading it off a piece

of sheet music, so you're just kind of blowing through it and you're thinking yourself, I'm doing

all the right things. Like, this is what everybody tells me to do, but it's just a lot of stuff, right? So you don't really get a lot out of each one. Well, I don't know about you. I've definitely felt like this before. I'm sure that you can relate to this as well. And my message in today's podcast episode

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