I'm Peter Martin, and I'm Adam Anas.

Welcome to the You'll Hear It podcast.

Thank you. You'll hear it podcast. Today we're going to give you seven great practice routine hacks for you to work into your daily practice routine. Okay. So I'm going to start with developing a routine. This is so important.

You want to have a routine of how you're going to get into your practice so that when you sit down each day,

you already know what you're going to do.

That might be just a real simple...

Real simple way that you like to start out your scales whatever it is for you know trumpet players like to do those tonguing exercises things like that but you want to have a

routine you don't want to sit there saying what should I do and you also don't want to

just sit down and play some random stuff.

You know, I was out for random.

I was kind of random, right?

Pretty random.

Just some random stuff.

You want to practice with purpose.

So develop a routine and make sure you're starting somewhere that makes sense.

Number two is to don't play until the very end of your practice session.

Don't start performing a piece or a tune and

just start playing around the tune until you've hit specific things that you need to work on.

Why not? Because then you just get caught up in these, you know, rambling, playing of tunes

over and over again. Usually the same tunes you already know. And that brings us to the third point, which is...

Separate your conscious from your unconscious practice.

So what I mean by that is, I think 70 to 80% of our practice should be very conscious practice,

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