Peter, hey, you look tense.

I feel tense.

I'm Adam Menace.

And you're listening to the You'll Hear it Podcast. Daily Jazz Advice coming at you.

I'm still having back spasms from when we sat up straight the other day. I know. That was hard.

Yeah. And there's a lot of tension in my body when we do this podcast. I have not found my podcast posture. Well, you know what, just today's subject matter has been a little bit tense, which is, could work against it because I think what we're trying to preach here, the title of it that you have is tension in the body. We don't mean we're going to give you tension in your body. I mean, we might a little bit, right? How do we, but I mean, as it pertains to, I think, playing our instruments and we've been talking about meditation, we've been practicing what we preach up in here, working on posture.

I got the mic up high. I've got it adjusted for a six foot three individual, and I'm coming in at about five, six and a half. So that's pretty good. Yeah, yeah. You know what? This subject, tension in the body, holding tension as you play, I think it is an underrated subject. If you talk to a, say, classical musician, they think about this all the time. Right. I mean, they do like, you know, Anderson technique stuff or whatever that is. You know what I'm talking about? I've never done it. Alexander technique. Anderson technique is a different... Anderson Cooper technique. That's a whole different thing. No, the Alexander technique, you know, sitting with great posture and keeping things in a lot. Alexander Hamilton. All right. We're way off the rails. We're already off the rail. Isn't it named after him? I don't think so. I don't think so. This is from a email that we got from... He was named after Lamar Alexander, the senator from Tennessee. Okay, no. We need lunch, man. We need lunch. This is a listener question from Darren. I was wondering if there were any podcast or two-minute shorts on what to do about tension in your neck shoulders while playing. With my luck, as soon as I send this one, we'll pop up. No, because we haven't done one yet. No. Because we're not doctors. I've always struggled with carrying a lot of tension in my back and shoulders when I play. It badly affects my ability to swing and play natural sounding music. Yeah. If you've ever dealt with it or help students learn how to relax and have good ergonomics, it would really help me to hear it. Cheers, Darren. Okay, I will say again, we're not doctors. I want to really, because we rarely get into areas where we could get into trouble with

our advice, but I feel like we're going to today. So I will say again, we are not doctors. No. We're not even doctors of jazz. No. But we both play Dr. Jazz. Great too. Jellier-R-R-Morton. Shout out to New Orleans. I don't even know if we're bachelors yet.

No, no.

Yeah, yeah.

But, so we want to tread lightly and really encourage you,

and this is not just, you know,

from the, you'll hear attorney team to consult a doctor before partaking in any kind of

treatment.

But seriously, you should.

And doctor, chiropractor, yoga.

I mean, there's a lot of different things physically that you can do in general, I think, to help.

So maybe what we can try to do is today is to keep it close to the vest and talk about things.

Maybe we've experienced or things specific to music, to practice, to performance that have worked for us in terms of relaxation and removing tension, you know.

Or not even getting to the point where you you know? Or not even getting to the point

where you're not even getting to the point is the big part. And you know what? Tension starts not in the body, but in the mind. And you're allowing your body to reflect something that's going on in your mind as you play. Right. And that just should not happen in the way. Dirty mind, dirty body. That's what they say.

But the good news is you can practice not being tense.

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