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So what are some jazz practice hacks that can help

you improve exponentially faster and not waste your precious practice time? Well, today I'm

going to share with you five that you've probably never heard of before coming up.

What's up, Brent here from Learned Jazz Standards. We help musicians just like you learn how to

play jazz all while shortening the learning curve,

no matter what instrument you play.

Welcome another quick win episode of the podcast.

On this show, we do episodes like jazz theory, jazz improv,

and even jazz practicing tutorials like in today's episode.

So be sure you subscribe wherever you listen to podcast so that you never miss out on anything. Now, you've probably heard classic practicing advice, like get rid of distractions, plan out your sessions ahead of time, or keep a practice journal. And while those are all really good tips, I'm not going to be talking about those today. You see, most of us don't have as much practice time as we would like, or at least that's how we feel.

So what I like to focus on is what's called the Pareto principle, or also known as the 80-20 rule,

which says that 80% of your results are coming from 20% of your efforts.

So I want to help you find out what that 20% is so that you can start cutting out all the rest of everything else and just focusing

on the things that work and shorten your practice time. So I'm going to walk you through five

filters that I want you to filter all the things you could possibly practice down each one of

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