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So for the benefit of those who haven't followed from the beginning, this podcast began as The Musician Toolkit.

I was never in love with that name, but I liked it, and it represented the premise of this podcast, which is that to be a well-rounded musician, you need to have several tools of musicianship that you work on periodically, that some will be better than others, but they're all there.

In addition to becoming really good at one instrument, you also have experience with other instruments.

Two of the tools I talked about in the last two podcasts, and that is basic keyboard skills and basic vocal skills.

But we've also talked about knowledge of music theory, the ability to conduct, the ability to accompany or follow other musicians, the ability to improvise, the ability to sight-read, the ability to play by ear.

So that was, and largely still is, the basic premise of the podcast.

As I got towards episode 100, which was at the end of the second year, which I guess was end of 2024, I thought about changing the name of the podcast for no other reason that if you looked up Musician Toolkit on Google, you would find another business entirely that's not a podcast, but it was kind of an online community, and they had been there before I was here in this podcast space.

So I felt like I would be doing an uphill climb to have Musician Toolkit be associated with this first and foremost.

But I looked around, and it looked like musicianship mastery was not something that was associated with anybody else, at least that I could find at the time, and that hit the essence of what we're trying to do here.

We're still talking about the tools of musicianship, maybe not 21 like we started, but all of those tools have a long-term goal, and that is to improve your overall musicianship.

So since episode number 101, this has been called Musicianship Mastery.

Coming up next week will be episode number 170.