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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, what's up? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards.

Welcome to another episode of the podcast in our very first Fast Track Friday of the season

two of the Learned Jazz Standards podcast. Fast Track Friday. What is Fast Track Friday?

This is an episode at the end of the week where I'm going to share with you a simple strategy or just one thing that you can go out and do that has been working for my students, particularly in our inner circle membership. I've seen them work. I know they're working. And I kind of look at the questions

that have been asked this week. We've had some great questions that have come up around,

melodic minor, around do we think while we're improvising, what are the best jazz standards

to learn from beginners? And I kind of think about one strategy that can kind of fit into all of

those that you can take away

with you. So today's episode, I want to talk to you about something called the batch practice

method for jazz. The batch practice method. And this practice method is really something that we do

a lot in our inner circle membership and our courses. It's kind of a framework

that we use. And it's a really simple framework. But unfortunately, a lot of us musicians aren't doing it

in the practice room. I mean, for example, have you ever felt while you're practicing that, you know,

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