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 talk about how much

you should practice every day. I mean minimum nine and a half hours, right? Maximum nine and a half,

minimum nine and a half. So right at nine and a half. But notice I said every day, because I think

that's the most important

thing about practicing. This is maybe a little controversial. Maybe everybody doesn't agree.

So you can take it with a grain of salt. But I really believe in this is like get to the

instrument every day. That's better than practicing nine and a half hours on Monday and then

taking the week off. I don't think you can bank those hours

that easily because we want to be participating in the development of our musicality specifically

as it relates to our instruments. So we need to be there with that instrument. It's just like a

relationship with another person. You can't really develop it if you aren't putting in the time,

yeah, but you've got to be there together every day.

Yeah, I think there's some things that you can get from daily contact with your instrument that are sort of intangible unless you're doing it daily, right?

There are these, you know, the way that your brain works and the connection that you have with the instrument can be very powerful if you build you build up sort of a daily practice routine you have the spatial awareness you have the muscle

memory you know it's it kind of makes it that there's that many less things to think

about you don't have to worry about timing as much because you're so connected to the

instrument so I like that one to start daily daily practice and I mean you know

think about all the things that we have to do every day or that we're kind of programmed into doing, you know, sleeping, waking up, taking a shower, hopefully, every day.

Eating, you know, I mean, these are things most humans are pretty good at. They're in the habit of doing them. They're part of our routine. And so if you

want to be a musician and want to really develop and hit that high level, you really got to have

that kind of everyday relationship with the instrument. That's so true. So the next thing is to

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