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Today on the podcast, we're going to be talking about

ghost notes, how to recognize them when you hear them, how to use them, and of course,

what are they in the first place? 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, and entrepreneur, Brent Bartstra.

Hey, what's up, Rudy? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. We don't musicians just like you.

Learn how to play jazz all while shortening the learning curve, no matter what

instrument you play. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. So happy to have you here. My goal is

always to serve you. Help you improve your jazz playing, become better jazz improvisers,

and of course to answer the questions that might be on your mind. And we had a live Q&A session for our

inner circle members last night. This is just where we, you know, once a month get together and,

you know, members can ask me any jazz music related questions they'd like. And there's always a

good amount of interesting questions that come up, stuff that, that helps a lot of different

people and some that I never thought of before. And one that came up last night was this question around,

what are ghost notes, ghost notes. Um, in particular, we've been studying the, we have been

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