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What's up, everybody?

My name is Brent.

Welcome to the LGS podcast, and you're listening to episode 32, which today I'm going to get a little bit more personal than I normally do. When I was thinking about what to talk about on today's podcast, I was trying to think of jazz advice or music advice that I had wished someone would have given me years ago, things that maybe I've learned throughout my journey playing music, pursuing jazz, pursuing music, just becoming a better musician, and things that I've

learned through trial and error maybe, or different things that now looking back, I think,

I wish I would have known that a long time ago. So today, I'm going to share a good handful of those things

with you. But before we get into that, I just want to invite you, if you haven't already,

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