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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, what's going on, everybodytt here from learn jazz standards welcome to the

learn jazz standards podcast and another fast track friday here on the podcast this is where i look back

on this week's episodes and see if there's any emerging trends or ideas that I want to expand upon and give you more

strategies and thoughts about. And this week on the podcast, we kind of started out talking about

how classical musicians can learn jazz. And if you're paying attention to that one, you notice

that I really focused a lot on this idea of learning jazz melodies and jazz language and how like really all jazz

musicians or any musician should be doing that for jazz. And last episode, we talked a bit about

jazz solos, right? Practicing them at original tempo. And is it worth doing that? Like how much should we focus on getting things

perfect, essentially, is what we talked about. And it kind of begged the question for me a little bit,

kind of bringing those two episodes together. Like, what is the purpose of learning jazz solos by ear?

And so that's kind of what I want to talk about today. What's the purpose of learning jazz

solos by ear? Why would you want to invest time doing that? And why would that be worth your time?

Why are we talking about this outside of that? Well, it's because if you've been in the jazz

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