Hey, what's up everybody, Adam Annis here, and this week on the You'll Hear at podcast, we're going to do something a little bit different.

We've been going pretty hard now since January, and we're going to take a week break here and air some best of episodes.

We have a ton of episodes now, so there's a lot to choose from and some really good stuff. And

we're going to do themes every day. So today's theme is practice. We pick some content from some

past episodes about practice, and we put together some interesting conversations about practice. We pick some content from some past episodes about practice, and we put together some

interesting conversations about practice. So hope you dig this one, and we're back next week,

so don't fret with all new content. But yeah, enjoy the best of practice.

Separate your conscious from your unconscious practice. So what I mean by that is, I think 70 to 80% of our practice should be very conscious practice, very focused, where we're thinking about specifically what we're doing.

So if we're working on improvisation, we're thinking about specific scales,

we're thinking about specific patterns, specific solos. We're practicing in a way and thinking in a way

that we wouldn't do when we're performing. But then you always want to have that unconscious kind of

practice where we're just playing and letting loose. And to your point of number three, of waiting till the end of your

practice routine, that's when you're going to want to do your more unconscious playing. So maybe

you're waiting until then to just play through the piece and not think about all the stuff

that you worked on. Give yourself a chance to have all that come out unconsciously. Or maybe it's

subconsciously. I don't even know the

difference. I don't either. But they're both important, right? And so that brings us to number

four. Don't practice stuff you already can do. This is something that our silly human brains

trick us into doing all the time. Our egos want us to sound good, even when it's just for us,

especially when it's just for us sometimes. But don't fall into that trap. You will never improve just playing the same tunes in the same way, doing the same licks, and the same keys that you can already play great. So make a decision at the start of your practice routine to work on things that you can't do. That's the time to do it.

You don't want to be doing it on the gig or at the jam session. You want to be doing it in

the privacy of your own home where you can really focus and hone in on the skills that'll

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