5 Ways to Tighten Up Your Time

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🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Music is like comedy - timing is everything! Today, Peter and Adam provide some tips on how to make sure you're always locked in.5 Ways to Tighten Up Your TimeMetronome practicePractice more slow temposPractice starting and ending your phrases in different placesPractice with recordingsListen and count your way through drum solosBONUSIn light of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, we understand that money is tight for a lot of people right now. That's why we've decided that for the duration of this crisis, we'll be running a Choose What You Pay campaign at Open Studio. Choose whichever course you want and then let us know how much you're willing to pay - that's it. For more info, click this link.Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.Let us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel.Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Hey, Peter.
0:01.2	Hey.
0:11.4	How's that?
0:12.4	That's not great.
0:13.3	It needs to be tightened up.
0:14.7	Bam.
0:15.0	Bam. I'm Adam Annas.
0:29.9	And you're listening to the You'll Hear podcast.
0:31.4	Daily Jazz advice coming at you.
0:32.9	Coming at you today, sponsored by Open Studio.
0:34.8	Go to Open StudioJas.com for, oh, your jazz lesson needs. Hear from one of our members here. Hey, this is Rob, long-time member of Open Studio. Started out with the trumpet pack, with the Sean Jones pack, and then realized that I need to get my piano chops together, and I said, what the heck. So I'm just going to get the all- pass and now tooling around, listening to all kinds of great players and learning something from every one of them, no matter if they're on my instrument or not on my instrument. So thanks, guys, and keep up the great work. Go to you'll hearat.com to leave us your speakpipe and tell us your open studio story. Thanks for that. And what are we talking about today?
1:11.3	We are talking about five ways to tighten up your time. And I got to tell you, that was a little
1:16.2	bit of our dramatic usage of our advanced acting skills, I would say. That was hard for me. How
1:23.4	many takes did that take me? It took you a while because you just can't not play to the click.
1:27.3	I mean, yeah. You got to have good time. I don't like playing to the click, but yeah, it just feels weird to not be tightened up with your time. So we're hoping to give you guys some ways to do that. That's right. So we have five different ways, like really actionable suggestions you can take to work on your time, strengthen your sense of pulse,
1:45.8	and really strengthen how you feel your way through the music. Because time isn't really
1:51.5	something that works if you're counting. Like we don't want to be robotically counting in our
1:56.6	one e and a two e and a three e and a swing. e and the five e no the best way it works is to learn
2:03.3	the language of the rhythm yeah and be able to to live in it in a way that you don't get lost that
2:09.1	you can feel your way out of it even if you don't know where one is sometimes yeah now i got a
2:13.5	question for you yeah we don't think we've ever talked about this but do you are you of the
2:17.2	mindset of once
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