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You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Best of: 7 Best Tips for the Practice Room

You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Peter Martin

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🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Peter's off traveling the world, so this week we'll be bringing you some of our favorite moments from YHI Season 4. Today, it's more tips on how to get the most out of your practice sessions.Like those You'll Hear It shirts Peter shows off on the podcast? Want some YHI swag of your own? Take a visit to our store! Just go to https://teespring.com/stores/open-studioLet us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel and leave a comment.Interested in more jazz advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram at:https://www.facebook.com/heyopenstudiohttps://twitter.com/heyopenstudiohttps://www.instagram.com/heyopenstudio See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

But anyway, time boxing.

0:16.2

So, like, you're really just being very specific with the amount of time and what you're going to do.

0:22.8

And so how this can supercharge your practice routine is that if you pick the right thing

0:27.7

and you're like at a very focused time, you can make rapid progress with this.

0:31.5

So I like doing this with technical exercises, specific classical things, transcription.

0:36.9

So you might say I'm going to spend 55 minutes transcribing this solo. And, you know, my goal is to get X number of bars. So you're not like, oh, let me check out the vibe on this or whatever. Drifting around. This is like specific tactical. Like I'm getting beep done. What's so good about this is it takes away this idea of like, oh, well, I have to have,

0:55.3

I have to reach my goal of being able to play this perfectly by the end of my practice routine.

0:59.3

That's a horrible cycle to get into.

1:01.5

Really, it's just about putting in the time, putting in the reps, you know, and you don't

1:05.3

have to achieve anything except for I achieve that I reach that time goal.

1:09.0

Yeah.

1:09.1

That's perfect, man.

1:17.5

Yeah. That's perfect, man. I love that. The most important thing about a practice routine is time at your instrument, time holding your

1:23.5

instrument, time.

1:24.9

You know, yes, of course, you want to be doing the right thing.

1:26.9

And that will come. Like, you have to have fate. Like, that's what i was talking about at the very beginning like once you've done this a lot it becomes easy to optimize and like do the the right thing that you need to do at the time because you're just kind of in half it's like if you go to the gym all the time you sort of know just because you know your body so well today i got to do. You don't have to think about it and have an app to tell you all that.

1:46.1

You just know, but at the beginning you've got to kind of be told that. But regardless, it's like, it's just like, you know, with the running thing, people are like, what equipment. Like everyone wants to get all these impediments to actually just being out there running. It's time on the road, man. Just go out there barefoot.

1:41.2

You know, I mean, you suck.

1:42.6

So it doesn't really matter what kind of shoes you have.

1:44.7

You're not Elliot Kipchogi.

1:46.1

You've got to have the best shoes. running time on the road man just go out there barefoot you know i mean you suck so it doesn't

2:01.0

really matter what kind of shoes you have you're not elliott kipchogi where you got to have the

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