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

Warning, 99% of you will ignore this advice.

Dude, what's going on with you today?

Seriously, are you okay?

Well, but on a positive note, one percent will not ignore it.

This is supposed to be a lighthearted daily jazz podcast. What are you talking about? Well, no, but this is important stuff we're going to talk about today. Okay, okay. And so, you know, we want to, we want to grab the people in. And, you know, hopefully, I want to be proven wrong. You know, hopefully it'll be 97% or even 79%. I'm open to it.

But based on historical things of like the questions we get, like what I've given students

and stuff, a lot of people are going to ignore this.

And the main concept for this advice is listen.

That's right.

It's as simple as that.

So what goes along with listening is really a

willingness to train your ear, to do the dirty work of listening when it's maybe quicker or easier to

look at the page, which is what most people do. But if you listen, if you take the time to really listen

and then learn by ear, you're going to be so much ahead of the game. But it's going to be a lot more work to get there. But once you get there, you're going to be happy that you're there. It's so true. You know, so for those of you that don't know, Peter and I have a website called Open Studio where we sell jazz lessons online, little shameless plug,, but also we get a lot of requests for

transcriptions of things and charts and music.

Which we eagerly do.

And we do it and but really the only people learning when we do that are us.

That's right.

Because we are the ones listening and figuring it out.

And not that you shouldn't want to see things like that,

but if you aren't willing to take the time to listen to things and train your ear

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