Hey, Peter.

Yes.

You know what we're doing today?

Yes.

What?

A podcast.

Okay.

I'm Adam Manus. And you're listening to the You'll Hear It podcast.

Two pianists talking music. Oh, he says it so casually. Like I've been saying that for years.

Love it, buddy. Love it. So, yeah, I'm talking music today. We've got a really good question in the speak pipe.

Yes. And if you would like to leave us your own question, you can go to you'll hear at dot com and just leave us a speak pipe. Yes. And as the cup runneth over at the speak pipe, some of these may show up on the podcast. Some of them may show up on our brand new Monday. You'll hear it Live Helpline, which is at 4 p.m. Eastern time. That's New York City time. Say it with me. Jazz Helpline live. What did I say? Branding, Peter. Jazz Helpline live. You said, you'll hear it. Jazz Helpline live. Well, I'm trying to, you know, we are the You'll Hear a podcast. No, but we all are over there on the you'll hear at YouTube every Monday at 4m. Eastern. Yes. And we are answering questions. If you're an open studio member, you can go to open studio pro and you can actually leave us a question. And we give preferential treatment to our open studio members. Right. Because we love them. We want to. No, don't. But yeah, so you can do that.

But you can join us live and ask a question in the chat.

And you can leave a speak pipe in advance and that might show up over there as well. Absolutely. But we're going to listen to one right now, right? We're going to definitely hit some speak pipes over there. But let's hit a speak pipe from Amy. this is a, I'm excited about this is a good question.

Yay.

Hi, Adam and Peter.

Thank you so much for your podcast.

My question is for you. excited about this is a good question yay hi adam and peter thank you so much for your podcast

my question is for you is um how important is it to have a strong identity as a pianist um i am

52 years old i've been playing my whole life, both classical, starting in classical, and then

after college got more into jazz and have just been, continue to study, but teaching as well

for over 20 years, and recently taking some lessons with Russell Fronte. But what I'm struggling

with is my identity as a pianist. I don't really feel like I'm

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