Hey, Adam.

Yeah.

Is there a lot of lights on here?

There's a lot of lights on you.

There's a lot of, like, schoolhouse fluorescent lights right on you, and there's nothing on me.

Is there a slight flickering of these fluorescent lights?

You look like you're about to murder someone.

Ooh, that might be your light bulb moment.

Ding. your light bulb moment.

I'm Adamanis.

And I'm Peter Martin.

And you're listening to the Lear podcast. Advice, inspiration for life and music coming at you. Why are you always laughing me? That's our new catchphrase. You're like Trump on a cue card, man. It's great. I'm trying, man. I'm trying. That's great. Today's episode is a global pandemic weird experience. I know, I know. There's a lot of slack. there's a lot of slack. Today's episode is... This is a global pandemic we're experiencing right now. I know, I know. There's a lot of slack. There's a lot of slack.

Today's episode is sponsored by Open Studio. Go to open studio. Go to open studio jazz. Hey, check out our new course, block chord basics. Ever heard of it, Peter? Yes, I have. And I want to just talk about something real quick with Open Studio where I was talking about the great courses. courses blockord Basics is certainly a new gem for us. But, you know, the community aspect has been the thing that I've been most excited about. We've gotten to know members. They're friends. They're part of the Open Studio family from around the world. For real. And, you know, what's happening with the daily guided practice sessions, both on the app know we have an app I don't know if you knew about that you have an app

but you can also experience it live via Zoom if you're in the inner circle you got to get in the inner circle but that's not that hard to do it's not and we're going to be doing more with that inner circle coming up we're going to be expanding all of our live stuff we really I think you think, you know, this pandemic, as terrible as it's been, it's been some amazing moments that we've witnessed at Open Studio, just getting to know our members and interacting with them. And we've really felt that communal spirit. So thanks, y'all. Yeah, thank you guys. For being in our community. And thank you to our listeners here. And today, we are going to talk about a really cool idea from one of our listeners, Scott. And this is something we talk about a lot around here. This is light bulb moments. These are aha moments. Are they aha moments or are aha moments? Like, uh-huh. Okay. No, it's when you, it's when something unlocks for you. Yeah. We say that a lot too. This happens a lot, I think, with improvisers. It's like we learn all these information and then we do all this stuff on the piano. And sometimes we're doing stuff. We have no idea what it is. And then sometimes things will click. And everything comes together in a way that it's like,

ah, that's what it is. And then sometimes things will click and everything comes

together in a way that it's like, ah, that's what that is. This is what people are talking about.

I understand this. That's, that's this thing. And so Scott asks, have you ever considered doing

an episode on aha or light bulb moments that you have had during your musical development? It is

sometimes hard to remember these moments because I think we take the information for granted once we have assimilated it. I agree with that. I remember, for example, when I realized that the second chord of A-Train and Girl from Iepenema, as well as the first chord of, if I were a bell, are the same functionally, right? Yes, the two dominant sharp 11. Yes. I love these

connect the dots moments. And while I'm certain that we subjectively experience these

phenomena differently, it would be fascinating to hear Peter and Adam recount a few of these

instances. This is great. And let's go back to his original question. Have you ever considered doing an episode

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