I'm Adamanus.

And you're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast.

Daily jazz advice coming at you.

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coming. Well, we got jazz bot. We do have jazz bot on our website, but I'm saying like actual

algorithmic jazz robots that are probably going to outplay us all. Oh, I've been hearing them for years. They've been around. I don't want to name names, but believe me. I was talking about people, but that's good. Oh, right. I mean, a well-thought-out algorithmic jazz robot will be better than the jazz robots I've been listening to since the early 80s. Damn! Whoa, shady. Shady time. So how's everybody doing? Good to, uh, good to see you. Yeah, we're not seeing anybody, man. It's a podcast. But I always feel like I'm seeing people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? I imagine the audience out there. Totally. And folks from around the world, we're getting a lot of love for the podcast, so it's fun, keeps us going.

So today we're going to answer a listener question. Yeah, this is from a listener named Anthony.

This is about practice time and about finding a balance of practice time. Anthony asks,

between touring, running the website, family responsibilities, do you still stick to a daily practice routine? If you go five days without practicing, do you experience anxiety about staying

in shape or has your playing reached a level where only minimal upkeep is needed to maintain the

standard that's acceptable to you? Thanks for shedding some light on this topic. You put that in quotes.

It seemed like my kind of guy there, Anthony. You guys are awesome. Well, thank you, and you're awesome as

well. And yeah, what do you think? You have an incredibly insane schedule, both of touring and of,

you know, running a business here. Yeah, I think, well, let's tackle the first part first.

Yeah.

Do you still stick to a daily practice routine?

That would be no.

Although I do go through stretches where I'm very disciplined about this.

And whenever I do have time at the piano, I really do kind of just default into a really

pretty good routine there. So I would say the days that I do practice, I do stick to a routine

for sure. Yeah. And I think that that's important, especially as you start to have less time.

It's funny, the times in your life, which are you normally you're young, when you have the most

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