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Here at Learn Jazz Standards, our philosophy is that the best

way to learn jazz and improve is to learn jazz songs, aka jazz standards. The fastest, the best way

to improve is to simply learn more songs, even if you're starting at the very beginning of your

jazz journey. But there may be some holes for you for how to go about learning a song,

especially a jazz song. It can be an overwhelming task. You may wonder what the best way to do it is,

and you may wonder how to improve faster by learning jazz

repertoire. So in today's episode, we're going to talk about just that, the best way to learn

a jazz song. Let's at Learn Jazz Standards, we help musicians just like you learn how to play jazz

all while shortening the learning curve no matter what instrument you play. So welcome to another

episode of the podcast. Really excited to be here as usual and very appreciative that you would take

time out of your day to listen to me talk about jazz. And in return, I hope you get a ton of value out of today's

episode. So like I mentioned, our philosophy at Learn Jazz Standards is the more jazz standards

you learn, the more jazz songs you learn, the better you will get at jazz. And a teacher that I

studied with once, the great Peter Bernstein,

once told me when I asked him, how did you learn how to play jazz? Like, what got you to the

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