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

Today we're going to tell you how to still play your best, even when you have jet lag.

Man, if you have this figured out, this would be good for me.

I'm not, I'm just going to sit.

All right, Peter fell in sleep.

No, I mean, you're legit. You're probably still legit jetlight right now. Yeah, I return from, from overseas yesterday, so this is a very topical comment, uh, content that I can barely even get through right now. Excellent. Okay. So this is, I think, is, you know, we try to give a little bit of utility on this you'll hear a podcast, we give a little bit of humor, we give a little bit of actionable advice. We like to say, we like to set the bar low, a little bit of quite a few things. And if, you know, the price of entry is free. Yeah, what are you going to do? Yeah. But I think this one actually, you know, we talk about what recordings to listen to, how to practice, all those things are important.

But, you know, the reality, if you do any kind of international touring or travel is it's going to come to a time when you have to play when you have jet lag or to do something or to get something accomplished.

And so no matter what you have prepared in terms of your musicality and your concentration and all that, it'll all be for naught, I would say, did I use that properly? Not. You did. That sounded funny, but there you go. It sounded very British. I was just in London, I might add. Yeah, yeah. But it would all be for naught if you can't get over or at least deal with the jet lag. It's definitely a skill that needs to be developed. I'll never forget the first time I played in Japan. I didn't know what I was going to do. I mean, I'd never gone that far west before and then had to play that night. Which is weird because they call it the Far East. I've never understood that. I don't either. But I mean, I was a wreck. Yeah. I was a wreck. Yeah. So in other words, you had not learned about drugs yet at that point. I had not learned about drugs. Yeah. Okay. Trying to go on natural. Didn't work. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So we're just going to kind of, you know, free ball on some, um, some just different ideas that we have and, and see what, see what comes up.

But, you know, the one that I've, I've developed that actually works the best is, is going to

seem really obvious.

That's get some sleep.

Oh, come on.

No, okay, but this is the thing.

This is the normal schedule.

And I've done this a number of different

ways but you know if you have a gig that evening and you're traveling to say uh anywhere in

europe or or uk so if you're leaving the united states you're pretty much going to be flying

most likely overnight because almost all the flights go so you're going to get in somewhere

from very early morning to kind of mid-morning to maybe around nude.

So if the gig is that evening, like normally what I'll do is fly in the day before and most promoters and tour, you know, managers will set it up that way because it's just oppressive to get in. And then if you're delayed, you're going to be going straight to the gig. Right. So if you get in the day before, a lot of people are like, oh, you got to try to stay up until that night so you can reset your clock.

But I've found that just like when like, oh, you've got to try to stay up until that night so you can reset your clock.

But I've found that just like when you're tired, grab the sleep because that's a luxury to have the day off. I've also probably going on half the time just due to scheduling, arrive the morning and had to do a gig the same night. So you don't necessarily have that much flexibility. but even in that case, get some sleep whenever you can and get it on a bed.

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