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Now, on to today's episode.

This is the Learned Jazz Standards podcast, episode 97.

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 all right hey

what's up my name is brent i am the jazz musician behind the website learn jazz standards

dot com which is a blog and a podcast all geared towards helping you become a better jazz musician. And welcome back

if you are a regular listener. And if you are listening for the first time, I'm really excited

you're here. Thanks so much for hanging out with me. I know you're going to get a lot of today's

episode. And in today's episode 97, I'm really excited to jump in to talking about using the 80-20 rule for productive 30-minute practice.

Now, we spend a lot of time on this show talking about setting goals for our jazz playing

and practicing in general, what to practice, how to practice, how to find the time to practice.

Because at the end of the day, if we want to become better jazz musicians, that's the only way we can do it is practice or getting out there and actually playing gigs

like we talked about in last episode, 96. And it is the new year. And so this month, it hasn't

been an official theme of the month, but we are talking a lot about goals and actually accomplishing things. And so today I want to recognize

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