This is Adam Manus.

And I'm Peter Martin.

And you're listening to the You'll Hear a podcast.

Daily jazz advice coming at you.

Today we're going to give you four practice hacks.

Man, I've been hacking my way through practice for like 20 years, dude.

I'm ready for this one.

But you know what? This is exciting because these four are going to be so good.

We usually give you seven of something.

Yeah.

But we both got a lot of stuff to do today.

So that's the number one hack is don't give all the hacks away.

Number one hack, if you got seven things plans, you can cut it down to four. Yeah, cut it down to four. But these are going to be so good. That's all you're going to need. It's interesting first that hack, because doesn't hack mean, that's a term my dad used or probably still uses, you know, oh, he's such a hack. What a hack. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of got a negative connotation, wouldn't you say?

Yeah, but I think Silicon Valley kind of flipped all that on its edge.

Like, you know, it's a coder thing, right? You hack your way. I don't know, you're a hacker, you're trying to get in somewhere. Right. Kind of cheating the system. So we want to give you some effective hacks, but we don't want to force hacks upon hacks.

Yeah. These are not hacks to become a hack.

No, no, no, there's the hacks that get out of hackdom. Okay, so let's look at these. Now, as always, we should start with listen. But because it's only four, we're going to avoid that, you know, but that's a given. Yeah, given. But the first thing is to practice in all keys.

And I think in terms of a practice technique or practice hack, you can really apply that to just about anything.

Some things may not be too feasible given the amount of time you have to practice, but certainly scales, arpeggios, phrases that you learn in solos, all those come to mind.

Tunes, yeah.

Tunes, you know, melody, if you're a horn player, if you're a singer, definitely practice

them in different keys.

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