Hey, Peter.

Yep.

What's the prettiest note?

Um, D.

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hats. Waldo hat. Yeah. But only up until like August. Okay, got. You know, I'm not really a hat guy, but for Oxford American today. I definitely am. So, cool. What are we talking about today? Today, we are talking about something that we call root shell pretty. And that's why we're talking about. And by the way, D, that's a great choice. That is a pretty note.

I mean, you kind of caught me off guard with that question.

I'm like, I don't want to go C because C is so like plain, but I don't want to be all like, B sharp. Yeah, no, no, D is a very beautiful note. But Root Shell Pretty. So you wrote a great blog post a couple weeks ago called Five Easy Jazz Piano Chords that sound great.

Now that is a heck of a title. you wrote a great blog post a couple weeks ago called five easy jazz piano chords that sound great now

that is a heck of a title there buddy well it's i don't want to oversell it but i don't want to

undersell five easy jazz piano chords that sound great we're gonna we're gonna include the link to the

blog it actually is a really good blog you You know, we talk about this concept,

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