I'm Adam Madison, you're listening to the You'll Hear podcast. Today is my last solo episode. Wednesday, Peter and I will be back together. We've been revamping the pod suite. We've been wanting to get back into that original space that we designed for this you'll hear at podcast. We were out in the pot hall for a little while. It was a little too reverberous for our taste and it didn't have all the bells and whistles that we're accustomed to. So we thought, you know what, let's just invest in making our pod suite a little bit more socially distant, a little bit more responsible. I hear there's a rumor. There's going to be plenty of plexiglass. So I'm excited. But today I wanted to talk about something that is really important. And that's how to get better at phrasing when we're improvising. It's something that isn't talked about as much as other nerdier topics like scales or voicings, but it's probably more important, and it's not talked about a lot because it's hard to put into words. Before I get into that, though, I want to talk about our new sponsor. We have a brand new sponsor to the show. Well, it's a new sponsor to the show, but it's probably not new to any of you. It's MuseScore. The MuseScore editor

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What is phrasing exactly? Well, it's, it's phrases and it's how we use them as we improvise.

And it's one of the more challenging things,

I think, to get our heads around. It's one of the more challenging things to teach, to do a real

analysis on different players' phrases requires surgical precision of awareness of what's going on

in the music and a big picture outlook and a small picture

outlook. It's almost, honestly, too much to try to explain. And so that's why I want to start

with this. You know, we talk all the time here about what's number one, listen. It can't be

emphasized enough here that to get better at phrasing, the first thing you have to acknowledge is that you

have to listen to a lot of music. And you have to listen closely and try to pay attention to phrases.

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