Oh, Peter, is this a little K-O-B?

No.

Influenced by, mildly influenced by.

Oh, who's on piano?

I'd have to do a little bit of self-analysis to figure that out.

I can let you know.

It's not K-O-B, it's...

P-O-M-C-M-C-M-E-M-A. C-M-A. C-M-A. I'm M- Music advice coming at you. Coming at you today, sponsored by OpenStudio. Go to openstudiojazz.com for all of your jazz lesson needs. That's right. Yeah. So we're doing a little self-analysis. That's right. How to survive listening to yourself. Avoid paralysis by analysis. Yeah. Now, this is a skill that we teach around here.

We encourage people to record themselves playing. However, this might take work to be able to do

this effectively. Yes. Which seems like it shouldn't take work. I just listen to myself. I

analyze. I see what I like. I see what I don't like, but it's really hard to get your ego out of the way

when you're listening to yourself. Right. For good and bad. Right. Some of us can be very hard on ourselves. Some of us can be a little too easy on ourselves. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. And it's, I mean, it's changing over the, I think, the lifespan of a, for all of us. you know, like we go through these different stages.

We go through different seasons.

And, I mean, I think there's a certain all of us you know like we go through these different stages we go through different

seasons and um i mean i think there's a certain element of like learn to love thyself yeah that's really

important um as an artist you know and when i say as an artist this is not some high flute

thing that you're a graduate of you know the man the Manhattan School of Music. Now you are an artist or

you have performed at X Jazz Club. No, this is about you have committed to putting your art out

into the world in service. Yeah. Right. And so, uh, the art of the, the art of self-love of what it is

that you're doing is difficult. You know what I mean? Yeah. But it's a necessary thing for the progression, for our progress as musicians, of course, to be listening ourselves. Not all the time, it's not the biggest part of it, but you do have to have some self-awareness. Totally. You know, you do have to be able to check are the things that you're working on?

How are they lining up and you're playing? What are the things that you do need to be working on? Yeah. But then there's also just the being at peace with what you've put out there into the world. That is what takes some work for a lot of folks. And so a couple of things to keep in mind is you start to listen to recordings of yourself. and this could be you record yourself in the practice room

or you record yourself in a jam session or on a gig or maybe, which is what I have here. I have a recording of a gig from just a couple of weeks ago that I thought we could check out. And then you have a recording that you made with a friend of the show Jeff Clap. Right. This is actually Jeff Clap's album. I thought this would be fun to put out there because a lot of people aren't hip to this because

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