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You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

How to Practice Mindfully

You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Peter Martin

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🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Adam's become a practitioner of a "mindful" lifestyle, and today he and Peter talk about how you can apply that to the practice room.For more on this topic, read the excellent Kenny Werner book Effortless Mastery, which you can pick up here. If you want to be even more 21st century by getting an app to help you with your mindfulness, you're in luck! Take a peek at Waking Up with Sam Harris.There's a new course from Open Studio: Elements of Solo Piano! Learn from modern jazz master Geoffrey Keezer as he shows you the strategies and techniques to become a better solo pianist. You'll also get Guided Practice Sessions featuring Adam Maness, where he walks you through how to practice each lesson in the course. And for even more piano courses, sign up for the Piano Access Pass.Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.Let us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel.Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Hey, Peter. Hey, so I know how to mindlessly practice, but do you know how to mindfully practice? I know a little bit about this, but I'm excited Manus.

0:30.1

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

0:31.7

Daily music advice coming at you.

0:33.5

Coming at you today's episode is sponsored by Open studio jazz.com I love that little affect I just

0:39.6

put on made you smile and giggle a little bit. It's got me got me back in the game as they say.

0:44.1

Yeah, I was just trying to wake you up, bud. Yeah. What are we talking about today? Well, we're talking

0:48.8

about mindful practice and I think this might even segue into just sort of mindful living. Perhaps I'm trying

0:56.9

to set you up here a little bit because there's something else that you've been getting

0:59.6

interest in doing mindfully lately. I've noticed. Well, I've honestly, I've been in mindfulness

1:03.4

into mindfulness in general, but mindfully eating. I've this book that your wife Kelly

1:10.7

and I were talking about the other day about eating mindfully.

1:13.5

It changed the game for me.

1:14.8

Yeah.

1:15.4

Mindfully eating.

1:16.6

But I really kind of like opened up this entirely new path of thinking about mindfulness in a way that I hadn't been as much before.

1:24.9

And it's starting to kind of like bleed into my practice obviously because

1:28.8

it's a big part of my life so far and the practice is a big part of my life I mean and it's been

1:35.1

pretty awesome to think about not thinking as much while I practice and I thought we could talk a

1:41.4

little bit about maybe some techniques that people can apply mindfulness to their practice.

1:45.8

Yeah, and I think that this is the practice area is something that doesn't necessarily come

1:52.1

naturally for us, but it's like one of those areas that if you've been doing it long enough,

1:56.8

it starts to come easier, you know, and I think what ends up happening is if you play,

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