You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Peter and Adam take You'll Hear It live to YouTube and answer some listener questions - today, they discuss the best way to sit at the piano, talk about how to end tunes harmonically, and take a question on solo piano comping ideas for walking bass lines.

Links From This Episode:

• There's a new course from Open Studio - Your Sound Is Your Signature! Join jazz bass extraordinaire Christian McBride as he teaches you how to play ballads, odd time signatures, fast tempos, and more! Featuring our beloved Guided Practice Sessions to help refine the concepts of this course. For more info, just follow this link.

Friday's Open Studio Live Events (All times in EDT):

• 1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)
• 3:00 PM - Piano Guided Practice Session with Adam Maness on YouTube
• 8:00 PM - Shelter in Place #25 solo piano concert from Peter Martin on YouTube
• For the rest of this week's calendar, follow this link

Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.

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Peter and Adam take a listener's question and extoll all the virtues of learning piano for anyone who doesn't play it as their primary instrument on today's episode.

Links From This Episode:

• There's a new course from Open Studio - Your Sound Is Your Signature! Join jazz bass extraordinaire Christian McBride as he teaches you how to play ballads, odd time signatures, fast tempos, and more! Featuring our beloved Guided Practice Sessions to help refine the concepts of this course. For more info, just follow this link.
• For a comprehensive collection of piano lessons, save money by purchasing the Piano Access Pass - every piano course past, present, and future from Open Studio.

Wednesday's Open Studio Live Events (All times in EDT):

• 1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)
• 3:00 PM - Edu Ribeiro + Ulysses Owens, Jr. | Drum Conversations + Q&A on YouTube
• 8:00 PM - Peter Martin + Emmet Cohen | Duo Concert & Conversations on YouTube
• For the rest of this week's calendar, follow this link

Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.

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On today's episode, Peter and Adam discuss who the most prolific jazz musicians are, as well as how many degrees of separation they themselves have from some jazz legends.

Links From This Episode:

• There's a new course from Open Studio - Your Sound Is Your Signature! Join jazz bass extraordinaire Christian McBride as he teaches you how to play ballads, odd time signatures, fast tempos, and more! Featuring our beloved Guided Practice Sessions to help refine the concepts of this course. For more info, just follow this link.

Monday's Open Studio Live Events (All times in EDT):

• 1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)
• 6:00 PM - Bass Guided Practice Session with Bob DeBoo on YouTube
• 8:00 PM - Christian McBride's Your Sound Is Your Signature Q&A on YouTube

Tuesday's Open Studio Live Events:

• 1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)
• 3:00 PM - Piano Guided Practice Session with Adam Maness on YouTube
• 4:00 PM - Open Studio Demo & Tour - Register Here
• 8:00 PM - Listening Sesh with Peter Martin & Adam Maness on YouTube - this week's album: Charlie Parker With Strings
• For the rest of this week's calendar, follow this link

Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.

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Today, Peter and Adam tackle John Coltrane's masterpiece "Giant Steps" and give some helpful tips to make navigating this tune a little easier.

5 Giant Steps Hacks:

1. 4 note shapes are your friend
2. Also... 3 note shapes are your friend!
3. Descending root movement
4. Change keys, not chords
5. Root, Shell, Pretty
6. BONUS

Links From This Episode:

• There's a new course coming to Open Studio - Your Sound Is Your Signature! Join jazz bass extraordinaire Christian McBride as he teaches you how to play ballads, odd time signatures, fast tempos, and more! Featuring our beloved Guided Practice Sessions to help refine the concepts of this course. For updates, just follow this link.

Friday's Open Studio Live Events (All times in EDT):

• 1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)
• 3:00 PM - Adam's Guided Practice Session on YouTube
• 8:00 PM - Peter's Shelter in Place solo piano concert on YouTube
• For the rest of this week's calendar, follow this link

Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.

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Peter and Adam discuss some of the self-help books they've been diving into lately on this episode.

Recent Reads:

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
• Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel
• Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness
• Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization by Scott Barry Kaufman
• The Lean Startup by Eric Rise

Links From This Episode:

• There's a new course coming to Open Studio - Your Sound Is Your Signature! Join jazz bass extraordinaire Christian McBride as he teaches you how to play ballads, odd time signatures, fast tempos, and more! Featuring our beloved Guided Practice Sessions to help refine the concepts of this course. For updates, just follow this link.

Wednesday's Open Studio Live Events (All times in EDT):

• 1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)
• 3:00 PM - Edu Ribeiro Drum Conversations + Q&A on YouTube
• For the rest of this week's calendar, follow this link

Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.

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We're all about giving a voice to many different viewpoints on the You'll Hear It podcast, and in the spirit of healthy debate, we respond to an op-ed sent in to us by a listener about a recent episode - read the full email below:

Hi Peter and Adam, 

Big fan of the podcast and you guys in general, but in my opinion this last episode on the blues was not cool/lame for a bunch of different reasons. 

Begin rant:

1. You called this a blues episode, but really didn't give any background on the different styles of actual blues piano that are out there and who to listen to. (Chicago style - Otis Spann / New Orleans - Dr. John / Texas - Pinetop Perkins and so on) The episode seemed to focus on jazz blues only which to me seems weird given the title. 

2. Oscar Peterson is not the end all/be all of jazz blues. You can make a very strong argument that Wynton Kelly, Cedar Walton, or Mary Lou Williams have much tastier licks and sound more authentic. Oscar is great obviously, but not all there is out there by any means. I love Oscar, but he also got a lotta criticism in his day for overplaying and being too polished and to hold him up as the epitome of blues piano seems strange.  

3. You cannot, cannot, cannot just run up and down blues scales and throw in some double stops and call it the blues. There is a language and vocabulary with many years of tradition. I am looking at you Adam. You had an episode a while back where you gave this formula on which blues scales to use in which part of the blues form and it made me puke in my mouth a little. The fact that you actually said this while shitting on the boogie woogie tradition and those licks makes my head explode. (I do agree with what you said about blues method books though)

4. Peter, sloppy rolls are part and parcel of the blues tradition. (See Dr. John and Otis Spann) Your whole take on this conjured up my worst memories of hanging out with jazz piano majors in my twenties and some of the nonsense I read on keyboard forums these days. I get where you are coming from, but this sounded way elitist to my ears. You could have just said tighten that shit up and/or don't overuse it in a jazz setting. 

5. You guys spend a lot of time talking about the major and minor blues scales instead of actually dissecting the blue vocabulary. For example, Chicago players like Otis Spann emphasize the b3, b5 and b7 while New Orleans players like Dr. John/Professor Longhair use more of the major sound (emphasizing the b3, 3 and 6) as well as some chord based patterns. Why not talk about these different approaches and play some examples instead of just running up and down "scales" ? 

6. I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate what students sound like when they are learning blues scales, it eats away at my soul every time I hear it. Stop telling people to learn scales, blues piano is based on licks and a shared vocabulary. Show people the licks, and introduce them to the players, and tell them to use the notes in the lick as a starting point for improvising. If you show someone a scale they are forever going to be locked into that pattern, show them a lick and it is the beginning of a musical journey. You guys didn't get to where you are by playing scales when you improvise, why would it work for anyone else? 

To sum up: Blues piano has a rich tradition which most modern advanced players basically ignore in favor of generic pentatonic blues scale patterns. This results in watering down the tradition when these players (very technically proficient but usually focused on other styles of music ) attempt to pass on their lack of knowledge to beginner or intermediate players. 

End rant:

I have a jazz background, but when I am playing a blues gig (or a rock gig for that matter) I take off my jazz hat and listen to my favorite blues players and shed their licks in all keys, much like you guys. One of my all-time favorites is Chuck Leavell who toured with Dr. John and grew up listening to real blues in Georgia in the 1960s. I am attaching an arrangement I did of his licks/solos (me playing them with a logic loop) that I practice in all keys. You'll hear a lot of the things I am talking about, he draws on guys like Otis Spann, Dr. John, and Pinetop Perkins and melds their language into his own style. I use it as a warm-up to keep my blues/rock chops up, but you get the idea. 

Love you dudes!!

~Benny

Links From This Episode:

• There's a new course coming to Open Studio - Your Sound Is Your Signature! Join jazz bass extraordinaire Christian McBride as he teaches you how to play ballads, odd time signatures, fast tempos, and more! Featuring our beloved Guided Practice Sessions to help refine the concepts of this course. For updates, just follow this link.

Monday's Open Studio Live Events (All times in EDT):

• 1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)
• 6:00 PM - Bass Guided Practice Session with Bob DeBoo on YouTube

Tuesday's Open Studio Live Events:

• 8:00 PM - Live Listening Sesh with Peter Martin and Adam Maness on YouTube
• For the rest of this week's calendar, follow this link

Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.

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On today's episode, Peter and Adam go over some moments in their musical history where an idea or concept finally clicked.

Friday's Open Studio Live Events (All times in EDT):

• 1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)
• 8:00 PM - Peter Martin's Shelter in Place solo piano concert on YouTube

Saturday's Open Studio Live Events:

• 8:00 PM - Romero Lubambo & Badi Assad: Live From the Living Room on YouTube
• For the rest of this week's calendar, follow this link

Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.

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You asked and we answered - Peter and Adam take on even more listener questions today over a wide variety of topics (like what happened to Adam's beard?)

Links From This Episode:

• For a comprehensive collection of piano lessons, save money by purchasing the Piano Access Pass - every piano course past, present, and future from Open Studio.

Wednesday's Open Studio Live Events (All times in EDT):

• 1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)
• 3:00 PM - Edu Ribeiro + Carl Allen: Drum Conversations and Q&A on YouTube

Thursday's Open Studio Live Events:

• 3:00 PM - Peter Martin's Piano Office Hours (for Members Only)
• 8:00 PM - Hangin' With Anat Cohen on YouTube
• For the rest of this week's calendar, follow this link

Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.

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Peter and Adam dust off the ol' Speakpipe today as they tackle 3 different listener questions. Wanna send a SpeakPipe of your own? Just go to https://youllhearit.com/podcast-contact/

Links From This Episode:

• There's a brand new course from Open Studio - Block Chords Made Easy. Join Adam Maness as he teaches you a simple and clear way to understand the basics of locked hands and drop-2 voicings.

Today's Open Studio Live Events (All times in EDT):

• 1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)
• 6:00 PM - Bob DeBoo's Bass Guided Practice Session on YouTube
• For the rest of this week's calendar, follow this link

Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.

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It's another new mini-series from YHI: Play This, Not That. In the series premiere, Peter and Adam show you all the correct and incorrect things to play when soloing over a blues.

Today's Open Studio Live Events (All times in EDT):

• 1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)
• 3:00 PM - Live Piano Guided Practice Session with Adam Maness on YouTube
• 8:00 PM - Peter Martin's Shelter in Place Live #22 - solo piano concert on YouTube
• For the rest of this week's calendar, follow this link

Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.

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