Hey, Adam, what's up?

Are you free?

Yeah, I feel free.

Okay.

I'm Adam Manus.

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

you daily jazz advice coming at you freely coming at you from the great state of

Missouri and the great city of St. Louis at our great studio here at Open Studio at the

Great Steinway and Sonspianna. Yeah I thought you were going to say we're coming at you from

New Hampshire because they're you know what their state motto is.

Is it the live free or die? Die. Yeah. That's a little intense. That's a little intense. But that's what we're talking about today. We're talking about free practice. That seems like a state that would embrace that. Practice free or die? That's right. Wait, that's no. No, no. We're not going to go that far. But we are going to hopefully get into some areas.

Is this from a question or is this just,

this is something we sensed our listeners wanted to hear, I think.

So our friend, No, no, we're not going to go that far, but we are going to hopefully get into some areas. Is this from a question, or is this just, this is something we sensed our listeners

wanted to hear, I think.

So our friend, Homerilobo. Oh, right, that's right, right. The great Humbero. The great Humbero. Great guitarist. He was in town this past week, and I was talking to him about his practice routine. if he would want to do a video on the practice routine

and he said, you know,

I don't know if that's a good idea

because I don't practice how I think a lot of people practice.

But I think actually a lot of people think

that... if he would want to do a video on the practice routine. And he said, you know, I don't know if that's a good idea because I don't practice how I think a lot of people practice. But I think actually a lot of people think their practice routine is different from everybody else. We all think that we have some kind of inferior practice routine. But Hamera was talking about that he doesn't just run scales or practice voicing. He's too good for that. He might be. He's mastered all that stuff. But he just starts playing to get ideas in a kind of a free form way. Yeah. Then find something that interests him. This is almost like Montessori practicing right here. It is. My kids are in elementary school. I know all about this. Well, I mean, I often think of Romero as being like the world's oldest Montessori student. And he plays with blocks a lot on the road I've noticed, but multicolored blocks. But, you know, I heard him talk about this and I said to myself, I used to do this so much when I was younger. Yeah. I'm so much more structured now. And I think structure is absolutely essential and it's great because it keeps us going. And some days that you don't want to think about anything, you just want to like plug and practice something. Yeah. But I think it's rejuvenating. Yeah. To just start playing and see what happens and then find something that interest you that maybe you can't do, but you want to be able to do and just keep it,

keep it going, see if you can practice it.

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