Hey Peter.

Yo. D'Hm. Mm.

Tifecta. Dopeo.

I'm Adam Manas.

And I'm Peter Martin.

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We are going to talk more about that later.

But first, we're talking about how to sound great when you're not a great player. What the hell does that mean? I don't know, but I'm just looking at Adam, you look a little heavy. What happened yesterday? What? Oh, I ate a metric ton of turkey and gravy and stuffing and pecan pie. So that turkey ended up being as large as you thought?

Yeah,

it's not large anymore. It's dead. Is it a carcass? It's, yeah, it's in my belly. No, man, I'm, I'm eternally grateful for having married someone who can cook as well as H. Mack can cook. Yeah. Nice. Pretty awesome. Cool. Well, yes, so we are talking about

So this is a little bit of projection, I guess, is built into this title, which I think is okay. A little bit of fake it until you make it, a little bit aspirational advice. Well, yeah. What we were talking about, though, is like, it doesn't matter what skill level you are. These are kind of little tips that you can do in the moment, right? Things, we don't want to say hacks because we get called out for doing hacks because, you know, I don't know if you know this, but hacks are hacky. Well, they have a negative kind of thing. We are always like, wow, we are, we are using more of the shortcut side of hacks. Yeah, we like to pretend like we're the enlightened jazz online jazz educators. That's right, right, right. We don't have funny accents, but we have funny words, hacks. Yeah, we like to pretend like we're the enlightened jazz online jazz educator is.

That's right,

right, right.

We don't have funny accents,

but we have funny words, hacks. These are real things that no matter what skill level you are, you can just kind of use these as, you know what? There's these things in Zen, Peter, called Coens. I don't know if you know about these, but there's these little thoughts.

I got some cousins out in California, the Cohen's.

There's these little thoughts. I got some cousins out in California,

the Coens. There's little thoughts that kind of help you loosen up, right? And these are these things, right? Little triggers, what do you call it? Little triggers, exactly. They like loosen these ideas in your brain, and I think these things are how to sound great when you're not a great player. I mean, this isn't

not calling you out

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