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When playing from a lead sheet, you should never play the melody exactly as written. Lead sheets are designed to give you the skeleton of a song - the basic chords and a simplified melody. As a Jazz musician you need to take this simplified melody and turn it into something more interesting and listenable by:
- changing the rhythm to create a sense of swing and syncopation
- embellishing the melody with fills and ornamentals
- harmonising the melody and inserting elements of the harmony
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