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

Today we're going to give you a dire warning.

Don't fall in love with a lick.

All right.

You're going to have to explain yourself here a little bit because that sounds weird.

It does.

So, first off, a lick is a phrase that we think is hip is that yeah i mean it's definitely licks are part of of the jazz

language right there's the these these there are what is the lick why don't you say that oh the lick

what is it uh be do be dapper that's i think that's a

lick but i think the um bobo do be bra boba oh that's right that's the leg i love that feels great

wait don't fall in love with it don't fall in it i know you need to listen to today's podcast they're usually

cliches right they're they're played a lot for a reason because like, just like, I mean, just

sing that horrible da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. That feels awesome. So I get why people overuse it. But you're right. Don't fall in love with a certain lick. I mean, I think it's okay to fall in love with licks for a while. Right. But you got to move on at some point. That's right. And I mean, you know, if you are going to fall in love with a lick, maybe you could fall in love with mini licks so that you've got a variety to throw out there so it doesn't sound like you only know that one lick and then you can kind of sneak it in. So I think what you're getting at is is not to overuse a certain cliche, a certain pattern, a certain anything, right, is to get some variety in your playing.

That's what...

So we got to change the title of this episode, too?

No, no, no, no.

Don't follow it.

Now it's going to be, don't overuse a lick. Yeah, no, let's just keep it how it is, but I'll regress back. Sorry. That's all good. It's all good. Yeah, so let's talk about some ways now that we've proven that you should not fall in love with Alec.

Let's talk about some ways now that we've proven that you should not fall in love with A-Lick. Let's talk about ways really to, well, even before we do that, let's just say this. If you do fall in love with mini-licks, so you're not just falling in love with one, with mini, then it becomes like how do you play it in a way that it doesn't sound like A-Lick? How do you get it into the organic flow of your playing? And I think the kind of overall concept for that that can work is to learn the

lick, just like you'd learn any other phrase, either from a solo or something that you hear or just

something that you come up with, and then try to kind of move it out of your comfort zone as quickly

as possible. So the easiest way I think to do that is to play it in different keys so that, you know, technically on your instrument,

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