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If you know anything about what I teach here on

Learned Jazz Standards, it's that if we want to become better jazz musicians, it comes down to

practicing. It's not about fancy music theory tricks that we learn. It's not about special

licks and not, it's not about any hacks or shortcuts. It all comes down to practicing and not

just practicing a lot, practicing

in a goal-oriented, effective way that will actually produce results. So over the next

couple episodes, I'm going to be sharing with you two different practice plans that I believe

are highly effective that I use in my courses and that work for my students and have

worked for me as well.

So today's episode, we're going to be going over the Stairstep Practice Plan.

I'm going to go in depth with how it works, what you need to do to actually take action on it.

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.

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