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And I'm Peter Martin.

And you're listening to the You'll Hear a podcast.

Jazz Explained.

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2024 style. New Jazz listen needs. That's out of Manish, y'all. I'm Peter Martin, and we would like to welcome you to 2024. They said it wouldn't happen. Peter, they've been here in 2024 for like a week and a half, man. That's true. Right, but now it's exciting because today, we're here with you. We're officially here. That's right.

And we are officiating this officianto's guide to jazz today. It's an officiano, like cigar aficionado. Exactly. Oh, we should make a magazine, jazz aficionado. I'm pretty sure there is one already. Is there really? Yeah, oh, yeah. It's called Downbeat. Shout out. No, there's not a jazz officiant. Are you sure there's got to be?

You know what?

We're going to trademark that before this comes out. Note to self. Oh, yeah. Jazz aficionado. That's a billion dollar idea. No, we want to thank everybody for being here for yet another year of the pod. We appreciate you guys so much. We hope your holiday season, wherever this finds you, went well. And we're starting out the year with something very topical to what's been going on in the studio here today. And that's struggle. Struggle is real, man. The struggle is real. We've been struggling to get this episode going, but you know what that means? What? Usually when we struggle, great things happen. Almost always. Almost always. I don't know why you introduced any doubt to it, but thank you, sir. Oh, the almost? Great. Well, we've got to start over. Right. No, but I mean, we're talking today about how to the struggling and how to overcome the struggle to grow in your playing. And I think that

growth is something that we're, of course, everybody's looking for it in any hobby or profession

or vocation, whatever it is. Whatever you're, however you see your interaction with this music,

you want to grow. Growth is fun. You know what I mean? It is. But it is a struggle sometimes.

So it's, but if you think about it, like, if you're growing and you're playing, you might have to wait a little longer to see that. You might have to have a time horizon of like a month or three months or God forbid a year. You've got to have some patience. Right. But you're going to, but there's going to be all these cool things that happen along the journey as opposed to just like the struggle being, I want to play better. It's like, no, think about what are the activities and hopefully we can talk about some things that are fun and that, you know, might be some hard work, but are like actual, the kind of fun work that you can get lost in that will grow your playing on a week by week month by month

basis so that as you look back of course it's fun to look back but that doesn't become the only

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