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Now, on to today's episode.

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

Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards.

Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast and our Fast Track Friday episode

where I dig deeper into a specific strategy that I know can help you in your jazz playing.

Today, I want to talk about a secret to long-term musical success,

right? A secret to long-term musical success. And there are a lot of them. There's a lot of,

you know, quote-unquote secrets to long-term musical success that we could talk about. But I want to talk about one

specifically today that is something that I've really noticed has been working not only for me

or has worked for me in the past, but also has had a huge impact on our inner circle members.

And I have enough years of observations to

really speak to this topic. In order to do that, though, I want to tell you, I guess, a bit of a

story here. So over the last year, I've taken up a new and kind of unexpected hobby, which has led me to spending a lot of time in a certain place.

And that certain place is Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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