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Hey, what's up? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast where I am answering your jazz and music related questions five times a week to

help you become a better jazz musician, to feel more confident to have more fun playing music. Welcome

to another fast track Friday where I'm sharing with you one strategy

based on the different questions that we've had asked this week on the show, as well as a

strategy that's really been working really well with my students. And today's strategy is called

the one jazz standard strategy for jazz,

the one jazz standard strategy for jazz. And the strategy in a nutshell is incredibly simple,

and that is learning just one jazz standard a month. Let me first talk a little bit about the backstory or the philosophy

behind this strategy. And that is that we believe here at Learn Jazz Standards that the number

one thing that you can do to improve your jazz playing is not learning scales, is not learning

theory, is not learning isolated concepts,

learning solos by themselves. It's by learning new songs. The tunes will teach you how to play.

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