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Now, on to today's episode.

On today's episode, I'm going to be sharing with you

what my philosophy is for teaching and learning how to play jazz, give you the big picture,

and kind of why I believe these things. 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.

Hey, what's up everybody, Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards, where we help musicians just like you.

Learn how to play jazz all while shortening the

learning curve no matter what instrument you play hey welcome to another episode of the show so happy to be

here now if you are listening for the very first time this is actually a great episode to listen to

if you're brand new to the podcast because I am going to be sharing what is my overarching

philosophy for how to learn and how I teach jazz, because I do think that, you know,

many teachers, they kind of do come up with their own philosophies, their own style,

their own beliefs around teaching music, or in our case case here specifically jazz. And I've certainly

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