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If you want to be a good musician of any kind, then you know you need to practice, especially

if you want to play jazz. So I'm going to give you the very best practice advice I can

give you to help you get set up for success coming right up. What's up, Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. We'll root 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. Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcast. You don't miss out on a single episode. Also, we do come out with a video version of our Quick Win episodes, which you can find

at LearnJazzstandards.com. So feel free to check it out over there as well. Now, there's a lot of

things out there for you to practice. I mean, there are numerous things for you to practice. And you're

probably never going to quite feel satisfied with your jazz playing or your musicianship in general, which is constantly going to

put you down this path of continual practice. And so it's really important that you take this

advice here because it could make a huge difference with the way you perceive practicing music

and achieving and getting better. So tip number one is to stop trying to find more time to practice. I repeat, stop trying

to find more time to practice. This is a huge problem that a lot of students who come to me have.

They are obsessed with the idea that in order to play jazz, they have to practice for tons and

tons of hours. And this simply is absolutely not true. In fact, I tell

all of my inner circle members when they first join our membership that I do not want them to

try to find any more time to practice than they already have. Now, the reason for this is if you

keep trying to find more time to practice, it means you're going to be constantly

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