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All right, my friends, what's up? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast where I'm answering your jazz and music related questions five days out of the week to help you learn how to play jazz, to help you feel more confident, to have more fun than ever playing music. I mean, that's what I'm all about.

And I just love it when other musicians are able to feel that joy of playing great solos and improvising and getting up at jam sessions.

And that's the kind of transformation I'm into.

So excited to be here.

We have a great question today.

This one is from Marlene, who's one of our

Learned Jazz Standards inner circle members. And she asked this, what are ghost notes? I've heard this

term used before when talking about soloing, but don't understand the concept. All right. Great question, Marlene. So what are

ghost notes? So just to kind of start with a definition of a ghost note, ghost notes are really

common in jazz improvisation. And really ghost notes are, I'd like to say that they're less of an intentional thing that

an improviser might do, but kind of just more of a style and a phrasing thing that they'll do.

A ghost note by definition is when you are omitting a note that is implied in a jazz line. So in other words, it's almost like

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