I'm Peter Martin, and I'm Adam Anas.

Welcome to the You'll Hear It podcast.

Thank you. You'll hear it podcast. Today we're going to look at seven ways to practice scales creatively. Now, I love practicing scales,

but I only practice them what I call creatively because I get bored otherwise. I've been playing

scales for years, but it's such an important part of our playing. So I feel like if you can develop

a few creative ways to practice, you can change it up every day, giving you some variety.

Because at the end of the day, scales are kind of boring and not the most musical thing.

I mean, it's about executing and developing your technique, but it's not as fun as actually playing music,

learning solos, working on your improv.

Absolutely. And I think every musician at some point, once they've been playing long enough, starts

to develop their own sort of way to practice scales so they don't get bored.

Because they are, especially for jazz musicians, they're so crucial.

We have to have these notes in our hands for the chords and the technique on the piano is very

important.

But if you're just running scales up and down for years, you know, it's boring.

Very.

So we're going to give you seven today, and hopefully these will be new for you, and then you can

work them into your practice routine.

But I would just say always be talking to other musicians, other instrumentalists, vocalists,

because there's so many creative ways to practice scales.

You really should never go at least any week practicing them in the same way, if not every day. If you're

really creative, you can practice scales differently every day. And by the time you cycle back

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