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For our first episode of 2022, I'm doing a special

episode where I'm giving the state of Learn Jazz Standards address. And we're going to go over

everything that we've got going on with Learn Jazz Standards right now and all of the exciting,

amazing stuff that we're doing in the future in 2022. Let's do this thing. Welcome to the LJS

podcast, where you get weekly jazz tips, interviews, stories, and advice for becoming a better

jazz musician. And now your host. He's a jazz musician, author, brent bartstra hey what's up everybody brent

here from learn jazz standards will we help musicians and just like you learn how to play jazz

all while shortening the learning curve no matter what instrument you play welcome to our very first

episode of 2022 so excited now if this is your first time ever listening to the podcast, do know that this

is a very, very, very different episode than what we would normally do on this podcast. Normally,

I'm talking about jazz theory and jazz improv, jazz practicing, strategy, tactics, all that good stuff that we have

literally millions of downloads of this podcast. And that's the reason we have those for offering

that value every week. But on this episode today, to kick off the year, I want to do a state of

Learn Jazz Standards address. For those of you who have been in the learn jazz

standards ecosystem for a while who are just curious you know what's going on with learn jazz

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