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Now, on to today's episode.

This is the Learned Jazz Standards podcast, episode 91.

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, and entrepreneur, Brent Bartstra.

Hey, hey, what's up? My name is Brent. I am the jazz musician behind the website,

learnjassstandards.com, which is a blog and a podcast, all geared towards helping you become a

better jazz musician. Welcome back if you are a regular listener.

And if you're just your first time ever listening, thank you so much for being here.

Now, on today's episode, I have a very special guest joining us today.

And this episode is a lot different from other episodes that we normally do on this show.

And that's, that excites me actually, because this is a really

important topic. Normally, we're talking about music theory. We're talking about jazz improvisation,

tips, tricks, lessons, all this stuff. But today, we're going to talk about something really

important that we've never talked about on this show before, but it really deserves a lot

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