I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll Hear It podcast.

Today we're going to talk about how to practice scales without getting depressed or dark about it.

Okay, so this is another fictional episode of You'll Hear It.

Of course.

I don't believe this is possible. Well, I mean,

I wake up every morning joyously prancing through a metal of scale practice. You don't?

I do, but it's pretty forced. Okay. And I can go dark very quick. All right. Well, let's help each

other. How about that? All right. Well, let's start with this. The first is to add variety to your scale practice.

Listen, practicing scales is a necessity to be good at jazz or music in general. We have to, as jazz

we have to know them more than almost anybody because we have to be able to recall the notes in

the scale effortlessly and as a language.

We have to understand how they relate to the chord change and the melody.

So it's crucial that we include scale practice in every single practice session as much as we can,

every day if you can.

And to do that, we can't just run them up and down, up and down, you know, the whole time, all the time. You will go insane if you did that.

Insane in the membrane. Insane in the membrane. So I'm always coming up with different ways to

practice. I know you are too. That it's not just the same thing every time that you vary it up. You can do it in thirds. You can, you know, do them in triads. You can, however, you know, start them in different places. However, there's a million ways to do it and there's a million resources. But however you do it, vary it up. It's very important that you vary it up. Absolutely. So I like to call it creative scale practice as sort of a concept and, you know, we've, I think we've got some episodes. Well, we'll have some more. We've got some lessons on it. And really it's just a concept. It's a way of life, we might even say. That's right. But I think when you adopt that mindset and there's a lot of the kind of nitty-gritty we can get into and you can delve into deeper, but the overall concept of it being creative, it's scale, you know, creative scale practice.

It's got the three elements.

You're practicing, scales, but it's creative.

And so when you give the three parts parts of it equal weight even just in saying

it and thinking about it your mentality starts to kind of change um so you know i think that the

the practice part is what it is you kind of develop the discipline for it the scales is sort of the

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