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Now, on to today's episode.

This is a $600 jazz guitar and this is a $6,000 jazz guitar.

Today I'm discussing which one I personally like the most, as well as the age-old question,

does having an expensive instrument help you play music better? Might be surprised. Coming on up.

What's up, Brent here from Learning Jazz Standards. We hope musicians just like you learn how to play jazz, all while shortening the learning curve, no matter what instrument you play. Welcome to another quick win episode of the podcast. By the way, there is a video version of this podcast over at LearnJazzstanders.com. If you'd like to see the guitars and see the action actually happening, or you can also can also make sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts so that you never miss out on a

single episode going on. the guitars and see the action actually happening or you can also make sure to subscribe wherever

you listen to podcasts so that you never miss out on a single episode going on here. So if you play

sax, piano, bass, trumpet, or guitar like me, we've all wondered whether having an expensive

or high quality instrument actually matters when it comes to improving as a musician. Well,

I'm going to discuss my personal experience

with you and then you can go ahead and decide for yourself. So this is my $600 Ibanez ArcCore

AF95 guitar. It's the very first jazz guitar ever got when I was getting serious about actually

playing it and wanting to have an instrument that kind of fit the style a little bit better. So I went on down to guitar center and thought to myself, I'll just get an instrument that sounds

good enough that will tie to me over for now and that will fit my current budget, which quite

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