I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll Hear at Podcast.

Today we're going to tell you why you're not getting better as a jazz player because of this one thing.

It seems like a pretty personal title for a podcast. Are we sure we have the one thing? Yes, we are speaking to each individual listener directly. Adam and Peter,

we are talking to you. Insert name here. All right. Let's do this. Okay. So the answer is

you are too patient.

Now, this is a crazy thing because learning in art form progressing as a jazz musician is something

that demands and requires and rewards an extreme amount of patience.

But in this one instance, I think,

instance, I think many of you are being too patient.

And that is you need to demand more progress

from yourself on a day-by-day basis.

So we want you doing all these things that we talk about

to progress long term, but you've also got to be doing things every day and demanding

from yourself that you see improvement in these specific areas every day, or else you're going

to get into this mindset where you're like, well, I'm working at it, but I'll be great next year.

I'll get better in five years and I'll get better in 10 years.

And what actually happens is it's these daily incremental improvements that add up to big moves

over six months, nine months, one year, five years.

But you've got to hold yourself to the fire every day and not accept that mediocrity to continue.

So there's some basic ways that we can look at.

The first one that I'm going to bring up is just learning tunes.

Like that's something that even if you feel like you're having trouble

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