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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, my friends, what's going on? Brent here from Learnedjs Standards. Welcome to another

episode of the Learned Jazz Standards podcast and our fast track Friday episode for the week. This is

where I look back on this week's episode, see if there are any merging trends or any ideas

that I want to expand upon and offer some more strategies and insight on.

And one big one that came up this week was just talking about self-doubt and confidence

and sort of the mental side of playing jazz and being a musician, which is super important.

And it's actually been kind of nice that during this second

season so far over the last several months, we've talked about this in some different contexts

throughout the way. And I think that's a really important thing to do. Not only because on this

podcast, historically speaking, I've enjoyed and I've enjoyed talking about the mental side

because I do believe it's so important. But because this is one of those things that I really

do think makes a big difference, right? It makes a huge difference. It has for me made a huge

difference. So let's talk a little bit about what makes you happy as a musician

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