My name is Adam Manus and you're listening to the You'll Hear It Podcast.

Jazz explained.

Today I'm very excited to talk about what we're talking about.

Peter is out of town, so this is another solo podcast for me.

And I've been out of town for the last couple weeks.

I was in a very remote cabin in very northern Minnesota.

Shout out to all my northern Minnesota folks up there.

It's a beautiful part of America,

and I was so grateful to be there. But there was no piano in the cabin I stayed at in the middle of

the woods, which was fine. I was kind of hoping for a little bit of a break. But I'm back,

and I have a bunch of gigs coming up. I've got recording sessions to do, and I have to get

into good playing shape pretty fast here. So this is a exercise that I use all the time to get myself mentally prepared, especially.

And I know a lot of other musicians use the same kind of technique because it's so effective

at getting you sharp. And so even if you've never done this before, that's pretty exciting now

to get to try this for the first time. That technique is called scale running. And essentially what it is

is you take a tune with a prescribed set of chord changes and you run a continuous scale over those

changes, changing the scale when the chord changes to the appropriate scale

without missing a beat. Right. So we're going to use Have You Met Miss Jones today. So, you know,

if we start here on our F major, like we want to transfer to that F sharp diminished, if that's

what you're going to do,

uh, without stopping, right?

So from the F major to our F sharp,

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