I'm Adam Manus.

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Coming at you today, Peter.

We are live again on YouTube. We've been loving going live on YouTube. You can go to our Open Studio YouTube channel every Monday at 4 p.m. Eastern Time. And you can check us out and ask your questions of us. And then we will broadcast this on our podcast. And I've been loving these, man. We've had some great questions on YouTube.

Way better than Instagram.

Way more interesting people on YouTube.

What does that say about the Instagram demographic versus the hipper people on Instagram, but nerdy or nerds on YouTube?

Right, right.

I'm garnering here.

It might be a little younger crowd, too, on the IG, not quite as

experience, not quite as seasoned veterans that are asking. These are some good questions.

I still love you, Instagram. I don't hate you. I don't hate you. I hate you Instagram.

Well, you know, we already have some good questions lined up, and we can get right into it,

actually. Let's get in. So, let's see here. Oh, Vladimir has a great question to kick things off. Something about counten and how to establish swing, please. So a counten to a tune can be... Wait, did you say counten? I thought you said an accountant. An accountant. Trying to swing and groove. I was like, forget about it. Well, accounting is definitely an important part of any musician's arsenal of tools. Financial arsenal. You're going to need a good one because we're usually straight crap at accounting. If I'm being honest. No, I think count in. I got it. Yeah, he means a count in, which is an important thing. Yes. but it doesn't have to be as strict as like a one, two, a one.

You know my favorite is, one, three, one, two, three.

It's so logical and correct, but so annoying.

It's so late.

The important part about anything, whether you're doing this, one, two, one, two, or you're doing

something like, like, both of those can be a counten. Like, you can just start playing whatever

you want, but the key to both those things you might have noticed, Vladimir, is that I came in

with a solid sense of the time from the get-go. It wasn't wishy-washy either way. I wasn't like, one, two, one, two, three, four. Like, it wasn't that, and it wasn't like... Come on, let's go. You know, like, you're setting things up in a very clear way with the time.

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