Hey Pete. Yeah, man. Are you feeling pretty comfortable? Man, I'm in zone. Comfort zone.

I'm Adam Manus. And you're listening to the You'll Here at podcast. Daily at podcast Daily Jazz advice coming at you brought to you by Open Studio Peter today we're taking a question from YouTube shout out to YouTube what's off Google keep searching we're on YouTube quite a bit you can check out the videos of these podcasts if you're just listening yeah but we got a question from Johan or Johan.

I think Johan is probably is a better chance.

Johan!

So Johan writes, do you think you guys could elaborate a little bit on pushing yourself out of the comfort zone?

Do you mean learning tougher tunes or applying new harmonic ideas and stuff?

It's a good question.

I think first maybe we could talk about what the comfort zone is.

Yeah, now we're referring to, we must have said something numerous times, possibly, in previous episodes.

We talk about when we practice, we talk about

pushing ourselves out of the comfort zone. Yeah. And so maybe we could just expand on that a little

more about like what that is, what it means to be in the comfort zone, how to push out of it,

how long you should be out of it, all that stuff. Well, seeing as we're in the pod cave,

which we could consider to be the comfort zone. I feel very comfortable in here. Although sometimes after being in here for hours, I do feel that it's the uncomfortable zone a little bit, so it could be both. I know. We've got to up our chair game. We've got to up our mic position because sometimes my neck gets a crick. Yep. But yeah. Okay, so within practice, I, you know, I look at it maybe as ultimately the goal with this is about how we play, how we improvise, how we actually perform on the gig, and being able to be out of our comfort zone into more of an exploratory in the moment kind of like what are they saying now about you know people talk about like you want to experience something and everybody's on their phones all the time yeah and they say they want to like experience it you know in real time there's some phrase for that I hear people talking about but basically you know you want to put yourself, it's almost like what

could be uncomfortable, you know, it's almost like you're putting your, you're turning that

into being so comfortable with being uncomfortable that that becomes the comfort zone almost.

Well, I think that's the key with pushing yourself outside of the comfort zone. So the comfort zone is, how's the mic, man? Well, no, I think I'm talking about comfort. I was a little uncomfortable with this bad boy's right. It's kind of pressing you. It's like, it's like, what's up? It's a little aggressive here, but that's all good. Is that better? Yeah, I think it's just the same, exactly the same as before you touched it. We are such a finely team machine. No, right. Technically, we're just... Stop looking at me, Kranik and Bach?

We're definitely outside of the comfort zone in this

episode uh no so a little bit about the comfort zone so the comfort zone is just anything that you are

completely can that you can do on autopilot yeah right and this is not a bad thing necessarily there's a ton of stuff on our performances and our practice routine that you can do on autopilot. Yeah. Right. And this is not a bad thing necessarily. There's a ton of stuff on our performances and our practice routine that you want to get on autopilot. That you want to have, like if I'm working on, you know, right hand lines and a certain comping rhythm, I want to get that comping rhythm so comfortable and on autopilot that I could get creative and outside the comfort zone with my

right hand. There are certain things that we have to ingrain so that they're so comfortable

they're in the comfort zone. Now, I think to your point, the real value in pushing yourself

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