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Yes.

Were we just practicing? Yes.

Hi, I'm Adamanis.

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Music Explore. Explore, brought to you today by OpenStudio. Go to OpenStudiojazz.com for all your jazz lesson needs, Peter. We're having fun today. We're having a blast today. Spin Drift is in the house. Our newest sponsor. Spin Drift, they've been a sponsor for a while. They have been. Shout on Spino. many cases, to the studio, please. Yeah, man. So we're talking practice. We're talking about practice today. Not the game? Not the game. We might get into the game a little bit. I was actually, I don't know if you noticed. I was trying to do something. I did vary from it because I wanted to do a little bit of foreshadowing into the episode. to figure out what was happening. Yeah. Right. I was going to use, do a little bit of restricted practice. I was just using the chord from the episode we just recorded. The just chords for beginners episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I think this is an important thing, no matter what you're practicing, if it's something that you know, something that you're having fun with, something that you feel.

Like, sometimes it's easier to structure your practice around something that you don't know.

Like, say you're learning a new tune.

Like, you're not going to just fall into some mindless practice because you can't play it yet.

Right? You've got to, like, look at the music or listen to the recording.

There's a natural beginner's mind that happens. Yeah. And there's like there's a progression of events that you have to tackle or else you're not going to get anywhere. So you don't have to do those things, but there's, but it's different than like playing a blues that I've played a thousand times, 10,000 times that we have, right? So, but then I think it is important when we practice to put some guardrails in. That's why we talk about restrictive practice. Some put some different things so that there's an intentionality that can be crafted around that in your practice. And that could be a lot of things because we always think about like progress. I mean, progress. That's a combination of practicing and progress. That's what we're trying to do. No, you're trying to get progress out of your practicing. You got it. You got it. Just practice. Progress in a little bit. Progress in a little bit. I like progress. Practice it. Progress. Sounds like something that my uncle Bob would say in South St. Louis.

Well, that's progress.

Ben, you throw your relatives under the bus so much more than me.

But I have many relatives that are worthy of being thrown under the bus.

You're just better at it.

I've got hit relatives.

Not a song.

But the idea is like by intentional practice, it can sound like we're pulling all the fun away from it.

It's like, ugh, I just want to play music.

I want to have fun.

But intentionality within your practice leads to progress, which leads to fun at the instrument because you're getting better.

Like you're seeing progress in your playing.

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