I'm Adam Annis.

And you're listening to the You'll Hear podcast.

Daily Jazz advice coming at you.

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Do you like the way my voice sounds today? It sounds very pleasant. Yeah, well, you've been telling me I need to be six to eight inches away from the microphone. Man, that's hard to judge. The podcast can either sound good or it can't. Well, if we're sounding good, then, you know, you'll hear it. What are we talking about today?

Today we're talking about how to build a good practice routine from early on.

You know, kind of like if we were to start over knowing what we know now kind of thing.

And this comes from...

I play trumpet.

That would be the first thing.

That's right.

It's going to stand in front.

A suggestion on Facebook from listener Johnny Lynn.

Thank you, Johnny.

Yep.

Yeah, I think this is a good thing to think about, if only to maybe retool your own practice routine.

Yeah, it could be kind of a when you're a beginner or a nice little reset.

Yeah, but if you are a beginner, I mean, the first thing I think about is I would definitely start transcribing a little sooner, although I did start pretty fast with that, but I would keep it in my regular practice routine earlier. Yeah, I mean, I think, I don't know if you caught me the other day. I came up with a new, you know, I like acronyms. Yeah. I came up with one, A-B-B-E-T. A-B-E-T. What does that stand for? Always be ear training. Always be your ear training. That's good. And that's really, I mean, transcribing, if not transcribing, something as part of your daily practice routine that's developing your ears. Yeah, I think that's great.

Yeah.

You know, actually, kind of piggyback on this, I think really the first thing I would do,

I think the most important thing I do now that I didn't used to do for years,

is to keep a journal, a practice journal, of ideas of things to transcribe or concepts

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