Hey, Peter.

Hey, what's the biggest mistake you've ever made in your life?

I care too much.

I love too much.

I produce too much.

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Like Herbie Hancock's first album. It's like a hot pocket one minute too long in the microwave. It just takes off. So check it out at OpenStudiojazz.com. What are we talking about today? We're talking about the seven biggest improv mistakes you, the royal you, are probably making.

I was going to say you. We mean

Harry and Megan at this point. These are improv mistake. They're they're improvising their way

right into another continent. Did you notice that? I did. I did notice it. Good for them. I know. We welcome

them. We need more royalty here for sure on North America. Um, so, and we don't mean this in an accusatory way. These are things that we all do. These are

kind of like knee-jerk, human nature things to do when you get into an improvisation

setting. Yes. And so these are just things to be mindful of as you're practicing, you're

soloing. You know, we just did our episode yesterday about practicing technique, but one of the things we preach about our practice routine is to practice performing. Yeah. And so when you're in the practice room and you're recording yourself and you're practicing performing, these, I think, are definitely going to be things that you can work on to make sure that when you get on the actual bandstand, you're not making these big mistakes. Yeah, and so that we don't have to personally accuse you of making these mistakes, we thought it would be fun if, as you're listening along to these seven, you kind of self-evaluate a little bit of introspection. Yeah. And we might even do that. We're going to talk about it because, look, we've done all these, but, it'll be fun to be like, when's the last time we did it? So if you're seeing that,

you've done all seven of these, like, on the gig last night, you might have a little adjustment you want to make. Well, and you know, a tip for this, we just had a really nice post from an open studio, long time open studio member Elias about his growth in 2019. And one of the things he

started doing was recording himself playing with a band. Ooh, nice. And so I think if you really want to see if you're making any of these mistakes, you want to hear it. Yeah. You got to record yourself playing with musicians either at the jam session on the gig, even if it's just you and a friend at your crib. Yeah. Like you have to be self-critical in a way that's compassionate, but honest. Yeah,

judgey. That's right. Yeah, yeah. Well, and I think that this, you know, that kind of leads to an

overall point that we wanted to make today in that especially when you kind of hit a certain level,

and, you know, whether that's intermediate at advance, I don't really know, but it's not beginner level. But you get to the point for improvising where taking some things

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