I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll Hear at

podcast. Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear It Podcast.

Today we're going to give you seven tips for accompanying singers.

What would you know about accompanying singers, Peter Martin?

Come on, man.

Well, yes, I've done it a lot.

And in fact, I should have mastered it by now.

And I still haven't as much as I've done it. But it something I have a lot of fun with I love talking about it I love playing with

great singers and I really think it's you know if you get into a situation with a great singer

and a great audience it's really just the peak it's the mountaintop as much as we love

instrumental music when you combine it with the lyric that direct connection a singer can have with the audience, it doesn't get any better than that. No, there's nothing like it. You're absolutely right. And it's a special skill to have. You know, it's something that, you know, we say we should treat them like instrumentalists, and you should, but it really is its own thing. And there's certain things that you have to adhere to

or good to know if you're going to attempt it. So let's start off with number one. Okay, so number one

is listen. Now, those of you familiar with the podcast know that many of our lists start with

listen. It's often number one. It's often number one. There's a reason. When Adam and I first put this together, I think we had a big whiteboard and possible answers,

took possible questions, and listen was always number one.

But it really is just so important.

And if you start this concept and this endeavor of accompanying singers, if you start from the place

of listen all the time, and I mean like when you're listening to recordings, when you're listening in the actual gig,

when you're listening to their ideas, all that.

If you listen and try to hear before you try to be heard, you will really have a lot more success

and it will make all the other little tips kind of, you know, become even more

valuable. Yeah, it's the most important thing in playing music is listening to the music that's

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