If You're Doing This While You Practice, You Need To STOP Practicing. - #141

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🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In today's episode, Peter and Adam discuss one thing that should make you stop your practice session. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	I'm Adam Manus.
0:15.8	And this is Peter Martin.
0:17.0	Oh, and you're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast.
0:19.8	Daily Jazz advice coming at you. All right. That was a rough start, but we're going to keep going. Are we? Yeah, we're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast. Daily Jazz advice coming at you.
0:21.7	All right, that was a rough start, but we're going to keep going.
0:23.7	Are we?
0:17.5	Yeah, we're going to improvise our way through this. That's right, because we don't know how to press stop on the computer, so let's keep going. Let's keep going, yeah. Now, on the technical day we're having today, we shouldn't jinx anything by pressing stop. Let's forge ahead.
0:17.8	All right.
0:18.9	So what are we talking about today?
0:21.4	Well, today, you know, we're talking about something that I was thinking about.
1:15.1	I was practicing early this morning, and I got a little distracted by my phone. And what I wanted to talk about was, you know, if you're doing this while you practice, you need to stop practicing. You want to, you want to know what that is? Playing with your phone. Playing with your phone. Well, that's part of it, though. And it's really, it's when you start to be unfocused in your practice, when you start to kind of ramble and play things, you already know how to play mindlessly. Shibbe doopo. Yeah, that's your favorite. Scoobo do be huidly. Now, you could always practice that through all 12 keys. No, but so this is something that I think takes a lot of discipline,
1:17.5	and it takes practice to practice this way.
1:17.8	Yeah.
1:19.6	It's to stay focused as you practice.
1:22.8	If you're not focused, you need to just stop the practice session.
1:23.8	You're wasting your time.
1:24.2	That's right.
1:25.8	It can even be counterproductive. You can actually slip a little bit.
1:27.2	Yeah, because I think that anytime we're practicing, and really I would say define practicing as time we're
1:36.2	spending with the instrument. So anytime we're practicing, it's fairly binary. You're either practicing good, productive things that are
1:47.8	going to enhance your playing or you're practicing things that are going to degrade your playing.
1:52.3	That's right. I mean, it's impossible that there's a little bit of coasting in between,
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