Hey, Peter.

Hey.

We're late.

We are.

So just go ahead and kick the intro.

There we go.

I'm Adam Manus.

And I'm Peter Martin.

And you're listening to the You'll Hear Podcast.

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We're only 14 months into this thing.

Well, today's unique, though.

This is a unique episode.

It's going to be a little bit of a recap. And this is actually going to be fun because this is going to be a little bit of a Q&A and retrospective of something that the actual, now this is getting meta now. The actual episode is not going to come out until later. So this is going to be a little bit of a teaser. We're going back in time and we're going forward in time all at the same time. What? Yeah. Yeah. So we'll have an episode that gets dropped on Thursday for our audio podcast. That is an interview with the great Ron Carter. Yeah. That just got premiered here on YouTube. And so now we're going to take questions, a little Q&A, which we haven't done in a while. Always fun. Always fun. So we have some good questions already about practice. Yes. So we love to talk about practice. We're talking about practice. We love to just say, we're talking about practice? And just to think about Alan Iverson, you know. So Musa says, how long do you practice or did you practice a day? How long a day? you know so musa says how long do you practice or did you practice a day how long a day

you know it's one of those questions that has varied as life has hit us in different stages

musa i think i can speak for peter with that yes when i was younger and I know this is true. When I was a young man.

I really, some days, I didn't even put on pants. I just sat at the piano and played and played and played. Okay, let's visualize that. That's not. Let's not. But you know what I'm saying? It's like when you're young, you don't have responsibilities. It's like you just play. I mean, I don't even count the hours.

It was just play as much as possible.

And then go play it at a club and then come home and play some more and then play, play, play and listen, listen, listen, you know? Yep. And now that, you know, we're, Peter and I both have open studio and families and schools, kids in schools and all this stuff, right? It's not as much as certainly then, but I know we both try to keep a somewhat regular routine. When I sit down to practice, it's probably not going to be for anything less than an hour at this point. Oh, I like it. Dogmatic. Well, yeah, just because like if I sit down to the piano, I have a little time. You know what I mean? if I don't, it's probably because I have 15 minutes to, like, write a guide of practice session for the Open Studio Pro, right? Yeah. But if not, it's like I'm going to sit down for an hour. I'm going to get some good technical work in. I'm going to get some good, like, transcribing in possibly, and just work on some new ideas that I'll have. Yeah. Well, and I think that, you know, part of the benefit with having a little bit more experience with practice with your instrument is that you can kind of generally optimize, you know,

what it is and how you're practicing so that you really should be able to fit what used to take four hours into, say, an hour or two hours.

So just in terms of like getting right to the stuff you need to work on.

And also being able to not necessarily skip over the more rudimentary things, but kind of

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