All right.

We've got Noriko who's asking, when you have confidence of your solo, is that matter, a matter of quantity or quality of the practice?

That's a good question.

This is a great question because I think that this is sort of a very important and nuanced balance that we always have to think about the qualitative versus the quantitative aspect of our practicing.

And so it's sort of what I was alluding to earlier in that I'm starting to realize, and

this has been kind of gradual over time, but that like 90 minutes of the right quality practice

at the right time of day for me is more valuable, well, I know 10 hours would be really good i mean i've been

i mean i've spent 10 hours probably in a day on like some last minute arrangement or something

no not even but that's the thing it's like i mean if you most people that actually spend 10 hours

practicing i bet there's no more than two hours of really high quality practice.

I completely agree.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that's weird because I used to always be like practice as much as you can.

But now I realize it's like play your instrument as much as you can.

But really focus your time.

So like I would say that that in terms of your question, the confidence of your solo, when you feel like you're progressing, your confidence, like you have to fake it until you make it for longer than you think. I listen back to things I played like on records in my early 20s. And in some regards, I'm like, I was so unconfident at that time. I remember it. I was like, I don't like this. I mean, now't, I mean, now I'm just like, everything I play. Yeah, whatever, not whatever, but I'm like, you're accepting.

I'm accepting, but I don't really play that differently now than I did then. So I mean, none of us do. Yeah, yeah. It's a weird thing. You ever listen to yourself? You're like, really? I'm still doing that? I haven't got better.

Why don't I bother practicing all these years?

But the idea of being that there's always going to be an element that you fake it until you make it. And there's never that time when you think that you're there. So there's nothing wrong with giving yourself permission to have some fake what's going to feel like to you as fake cognitive. What this does, and it goes back to the first principles of why the hell we're doing this,

we're trying to play something that sounds good.

We're trying to put something out in the world. I mean, it's just like, think about if everybody in the world that opened up their mouth and said something, not that we would ever open up our mouths and start blabbering on that and putting that into the world like we're doing right now. But if everybody in the world thought about what they were saying before they spoke,

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