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

Today we're going to give you seven ways to thrive on a solo piano gig.

Okay, good.

I have a solo piano gig later tonight, so I'm going to use everything we talk about here on this gig.

Okay. How long is your gig this evening? It's going to be three we we talk about here on this gig so okay how long

is your gig this evening it's going to be three and a half hours well that's perfect so with seven you can use

one of these every 30 minutes okay all right so take notes sounds good okay so this is a question from

our jazz panel studio Facebook group from peter and so of course know, I always put priority on anyone named Peter in terms of

their questions.

So that's a good way to get in there.

Okay.

That's awful.

That's kind of narcissistic.

But all right.

No, but this is an area where we have a lot.

I mean, we probably have collectively, when we say thousands of hours of experience in

solo piano gigs over the years.

Days, if not weeks of solo piano gigs. Yeah, yeah. And I mean, some of these things I think that we're going to talk about in just experiences in general, you know, we've developed over time. But some of them, too, are like you think back to saying, wow, I wish I'd known this or I'd wish I'd done this. I think in general, solo piano gigs is a great time to develop as a solo piano

player. I mean, we can practice all the time solo, but I mean, what a great thing to be able to do it on a gig with an audience, whether that's one or a thousand or 10,000, or 10,000, or 20,000. Well, that would never happen for solo piano, but theoretically. And, you know, any pianists out here listening, really don't neglect your solo piano game.

It's such a huge part of our instrument.

It's part of our heritage is jazz pianists. And I know some pianists just like love playing with just groups, with rhythm sections. But you're not really, you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't have your solo piano game together. Not to mention, you're missing out on some Buku bucks. That's right. You don't have to pay anyone at the end of the night. That's right. Okay. So number one, let's jump right in. The first one I think is most important to keep in mind to thrive on a solo piano gig is to concentrate. Now, this is a special. I mean, look, we should always be concentrating when we're playing,

and we all experience different levels of concentration, and, you know, sometimes you're off

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