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Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right. What's up Rudy Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards.

Welcome to another episode of the Learn Jazz Standards podcast.

So excited to be here answering your jazz and music questions five days out of the week

to help you have more fun playing jazz to help shorten the learning curve.

Really excited.

And today we've got a really great question and this one comes from one of our

inner circle members his name is eric and he asked this question what kind of advice can you give

to someone who feels like they are spinning their wheels and not really making improvements how do you

know if you are doing too much, the wrong stuff,

what should the primary focus be when learning improv only? Okay. So what kind of advice

when someone feels like they simply are not improving, right? You may be practicing a lot,

but you're just not feeling like anything is happening.

You still just sound the same as you always have sounded. Well, I want to give some very

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