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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friends, what's going on? Brent here from LearnJas Standards.

Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast and another fast track Friday episode.

This is, we're at the end of the week here of the show.

I like to kind of look back and see if there's any trends in some of the questions or just some extra thoughts and things I want to elaborate on.

And so today what I'd like to talk about is something that's really near and dear to my heart,

which is your practice engine, okay? Your practice engine. And really this fits under the category

of practicing, being really good at practicing. And, you know, oftentimes when I,

when I talk about this idea of, of practicing, I know that there could be a little bit of a

tendency or reaction from, from folks to be to kind of turn off a little bit and just be like,

that sounds boring right practicing

i don't want to learn about practicing better right um because it it's just we'd rather hear about

like what's a really cool improv strategy or what are some cool songs i should be learning or what's a

cool hack or something that's going to shorten, you know, shorten how long it takes

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