This is Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin.

And you're listening to the You'll Hearer podcast.

Daily Jazz advice coming at you. Are you running out of improv ideas?

We'll do these seven things.

Is this some kind of infomercial or something, man?

This is.

And wait, there's more.

Come on.

I'm not doing nine on this.

All right. So, you know, not doing nine on this. All right.

So, you know, we all get to that point in our practice routine, on a gig, even in a solo

where it feels like we don't have any more ideas, that everything that could be played

has been played or that anything that we're going to play, we're just sort of regurgitating

something we've already played. We're not feeling creative or whatever. So we wanted to give you seven, you know, ideas of, you know, different ways of thinking about the music, maybe some different ways of practicing, just sort of different concepts to get those creative juices flowing again. Yeah, we all get kind of stuck in our own ruts. And so it's good to kind of to try new things and maybe get out of your comfort zone a little bit. So yeah, I'll look forward to this. So speaking of comfort zone, we're going to start with number one, listen. Oh, this is new for us. Okay, cool. Listen. Which is definitely our comfort zone. But now we're going to be listening for specifically new improv ideas.

So the obvious thing is to listen to things you haven't been listening to.

But usually things that we know really well that we've listened to over and over again.

And, you know, we've talked a lot about on here, like really what I would, you know, call focus listening, not just, you know, you've got the music playing in the background while you're cooking pasta and drinking Kianti, you know, real like you're sitting there and almost

meditating on the music, concentrating, listening to all the different parts. So once you've done that

enough on certain recordings, you feel like you really know them and you think, well, I'm not

going to go there for my improv ideas. But because you know those

recordings so well, oftentimes you can find new things. There's always fresh ideas that you missed

or that you heard, but maybe you didn't apply to your playing. So that could be at any point

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