What's up, everyone? Adam Manus here. And just want to set up our New Year's Eve, Best of compilation,

best of the you'll hear at podcast from some of our favorite moments of 2021. Thank you so much,

everybody, for being on this journey with us this year. It's been so much fun. We've been doing this

podcast for several years now. We've passed the 800 episode mark in 2021, which is absolutely insane for Peter and I.

So thank you very much.

We hope you enjoy some of our favorite moments here in this Best Of compilation.

We're going to start things off here with a question from a listener about how long should we practice and what are we practicing?

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 moose 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 at a club and then come home and play some more and then play, play, play, play

and listen, listen, listen, you know? And now that, you know, we're, Peter and I both have

open studio and families and schools, kids in schools, 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 guy to 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.

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