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Today we're going to fact check an online tutorial.

I've been looking forward to this episode all week.

That's right.

Now, I'm not even sure if we're allowed to do this, but we're going to do it.

Well, let's not mention the actual website or tutorial we're going to fact check.

So I shouldn't say anything about WikiHOW?

Wait, should we be encouraging people the fact check online tutorials, but we make so many of them? You know what? We're not going to say exactly. You know what? Fact check us. That's right. That's how we're going to get away with this. Apparently there's some kind of website called WikiHow and they've got some stuff.

I mean, I don't want to send you right to it play hyphen jazz hyphen piano. If you find it, you find it. But we're going to go through because when I stumbled upon this, I was like, eh-uh, and you know what people should not be putting out bad information. I mean, I guess they're trying, let's just take it step by step. All right. Okay, how to play jazz piano. Jazz is an art form.

Okay, so far, correct.

Yeah. I mean, I guess they're trying. Let's just take it step by step. All right. Okay, how to play jazz piano. Jazz is an art form, okay, so far, correct, fact. Yeah, that has grown from its blues origins to draw influences from just about every genre of music there is. That's kind of true. For the beginner though, it's perhaps best to focus on early swing and learning to improvise. Okay, now already, we're getting, no, it's not, you don't focus on early swing. What is, what is it? I don't even know what that is. Here's a pretty easy way to get going. Well, the verdict's out on it, that's factual or not. Why don't you take number one that they've got here? Number one is listen. Now this is actually, this is really good.

If they had left it at that one word, yes. Yeah. So find as many recordings as you can get your

hands on. Don't discriminate. Listen to the old greats like Art Tatum account Basie and Thelonious Monk.

All good, as well as up-and-coming pianists of today. But I have a problem with don't discriminate

because, of course, don't discriminate in the workplace for legal reasons, but you should be very discriminating when you're starting out in terms of like how to play jazz because you can get overwhelmed, you can listen to the wrong stuff, you can kind of get stuff out of order. And it's not to say there's one way to do it, but early on you've got to be even more discriminating than later I agree and I think what it should say instead

of don't discriminate is to find the musician that you like that is what's going to

make you progress fast is to find the player that speaks to you when you're

starting out so that you mimic them and you want to keep going and that you

want to keep practicing okay now they've got number two,

step number two, assuming you already know some very basic theory, first learn all 12 major scales.

Okay, now I got a big problem with this for being step number two because, you know, for most

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