I'm Adam Manus.

And I'm Peter Martin.

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

Daily Jazz Advice coming at you. Brought you by Open Studio And you're listening to the You'll Hear It Podcast. Daily Jazz Advice coming at you. Brought to you by Open Studios, you're listening to it, which means that today we're talking about listening. We're talking about ear training. We are. Yeah. We're going to give you seven ways to improve your ears through ear training. How else would you improve your ears? Well, I can improve your ears through eye training. Well, no, but you know, some people think if you read about it or if you watch YouTube videos, that your ears look. So, I mean, it's an important distinction to make, I think. I agree. Yeah. So seven ways to improve your ears. I want to just say first, this is not one of the seven, but it's kind of a little model of mine. See if we can get the hashtag trending, and that's ABET. What you know about ABET, Adam. Always be your training. I know a lot about it. Oh, hello. Hell, I like it. I like your confidence. It's been your mantra for like six months now. Yeah. No, I love it. I mean I mean, I, and it comes from, of course, the famous Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross. I don't know if it started that, but that it was pre hashtag. ABC. ABC, right, always be closing. No, but always be ear training. So I think, you know, hopefully we're going to sculpt the seven. And I'm just looking at the list here. We actually have six. So we're're gonna have to come with an audible for number seven but we hope that these are all

things that you can be doing continually we don't want to think about you know

ear training as something that you know you schedule time for 17 minutes a day and

that's the only ear training you do we can do it through

throughout when you're walking around with headphones when you're thinking about

music when you're sitting on an airplane when you're away from your instrument

when you're at your instrument there's always time to develop your ears and it's such a

crucial part of what we do as as musicians period but especially jazz

improvisation composition all those kind of things.

Yeah, I agree. I do, I think I do more ear training away from the instrument now than I did,

you know, before, just because now I spend so much time, you know, practicing technique stuff

or specific things to the piano. But, you know, like you said, I've, you can develop these techniques to really work on ear training away from the instrument. You don't have to have to do it all the time in your practice session. Now, that said, if you haven't put in those hours, right, now's the time. Exactly. Oh, and I should just say too, this is actually answering a question from one of our listeners. Oh, cool. Or actually one of our watchers. From Stein.

From Stein on YouTube. Who put a comment for us. Did you know we get comments on YouTube? I do know because I check every day. Really? I don't. I just saw it on here, but I'm very interested and excited now that we're getting them. Yeah. And big shout out to YouTube. Google, of course, as always. catch us there.

Big shout out to our audio listeners, too.

We always shout out YouTube.

I know. Because I'm pointing at him at the camera. But yeah, yeah. Exactly. Our core folks are audio podcasts. Yeah, totally. Our first love. Okay, so number one is listen. Okay. That's weird. That is weird. But now this is really important, okay? I mean, this, like we joke about listen being number one, but it's always true for when we use it. That we're not joking about. But for ear training, you have to listen. That should be obvious, but for some people it isn't. Like they want to work on ear training first by going and plunking out notes on the piano, by playing, whatever. Ear training is all about listening. That's what your ears for. That's why it's called ear training. So you've got to get into a higher level of listening. And you can't say like, oh, I'm already a great listener because there's always, I mean, try to do that if

you're in a marriage. You're in a marriage, right, Adam? I'm in a marriage. We're both in moderately successful marriages, I would say. No, no, no, outside of this environment. But just go to your spouse sometime and say, this will be a great way to end a marriage. I'm a great list. I cannot get any better as a listener. I don't think those words have ever been said successfully in any kind of marriage.

Yeah, that's a great list. I cannot get any better as a listener. I don't think those words have ever been said successfully in any kind of marriage.

Yeah, that's a great way to commit suicide.

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