Let's talk about intros. My name is Peter. Hi, I'm Adam. Nice to meet you.

How are you? Good. Yeah. Now we know everything we need to know about intros.

Daily Jazz advice coming at you. We're back at the piano. We're back at the piano, and we are indeed talking about intros. Yes. But not that kind of introduction. No. The awkward cocktail party. Hey, how's it going? I have my own internet-based jazz education. Man, the most awkward thing for me at cocktail parties recently,

in terms of introductions, has been that it used to be I wouldn't remember one person's name.

You know, the whole thing when you try to get them to say their name, and they know it.

So they're just going to, like, string you along as long.

I wanted to introduce my wife here, And then the awkward time and then,

but what I do now is I text people, you often, in fact, and say, what's the name of?

What is this guy's name? I get that text from here quite often. What is the guy's name with such and

such? I do the horrible, like, Hollywood TV producer trick of immediately repeating their name like three times. Everybody knows what I'm doing when I do it too. Like if we were to just meet, I'd be like, hey, I'm Peter. I'd be like, hey, Peter, nice to meet you, man. So Peter, you're like, what is... Peter is such an interesting word. Where did you get the name? This guy's saying my name a lot. He's trying to remember my name. I like that one, actually, Adam. I like that one a lot, Adam. I'm going to try to use that, Adam.

This is a life hack, but... Peter. This guy's saying my name a lot. He's trying to remember my name. I like that one, actually, Adam. I like that one a lot, Adam.

I'm going to try to use that, Adam.

This is a life hack, but it's a life hack.

All right, what do we got today?

Oh, intros.

Yeah, we're talking about intros.

We did an episode on how to end a tune a few weeks ago, maybe a few months ago now, and we've been getting a lot of flak-for-not discussing how to start a tune.

Yeah, so that's what we're going to do. I don't know if we'll make it to seven. That's right. Well, let's listen to the question because I think this is a voice question, right? Yep. Okay. Hey, guys. Love your podcast listening from L.A. I particularly enjoyed your seven ways to end a tune and I was wondering

if you could have a similar one for seven ways to begin a tune. Thanks a lot.

All right. Thanks, David. Yeah, that's a good question. Yeah, basically just what do we do to

start tunes? Are there any sort of standard intros? And there are, there are definitely. Yep.

So let's just go through, maybe we'll kind of go back and forth and I like to think about

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