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

Drop-2 might sound complicated, but on today's episode, Adam and Peter show you why it's an easy tool you can add to your piano toolkit.

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Are you worried that your triads sound D.O.A.? Peter and Adam give you some voicings to help resuscitate them in this episode.

4 Basic Triad Voicings:

1. Closed voicings and inversions
2. Open voicings and inversions
3. Neighbor notes
4. Slash bass

Adam has a whole video where he goes on a deep dive of these voicings - click here to check it out.

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Grow some funk of your own by checking out these tunes - guaranteed to build your funky vocabulary. Listen to 'em all right here.

7 Tracks to Help Your Funk Chops

1. Professor Longhair - "Big Chief"
2. The Meters - "Look-Ka Py Py"
3. Stevie Wonder - "As"
4. Herbie Hancock - "Watermelon Man"
5. Parliament - "Flash Light"
6. Cannonball Adderley - "Mercy Mercy Mercy"
7. Stevie Wonder - "I Wish"

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It's time for some theory talk today as Peter and Adam discuss the different minor seventh chords.

Want to add some Brazilian flair to your own playing? The Samba Pack is now available from Open Studio! Featuring 7 curated lessons from our roster of Brazilian artists (including Helio Alves, Edu Ribeiro, and Romero Lubambo), the Samba Pack is also our lowest-price course ever from Open Studio.

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Practicing scales is notoriously boring - or is it? Peter and Adam give you a better way to practice your scales in this episode.

Want to add some Brazilian flair to your own playing? The Samba Pack is now available from Open Studio! Featuring 7 curated lessons from our roster of Brazilian artists (including Helio Alves, Edu Ribeiro, and Romero Lubambo), the Samba Pack is also our lowest-price course ever from Open Studio.

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Peter and Adam have talked about how to get the most out of brief practice sessions, but what happens when you have all day at your disposal?

We're very excited to announce that You'll Hear It has reached 1,000,000 downloads! We want to thank each and every listener for your support of this podcast, whether you've been with us from the beginning or just recently discovered us. Here's to another million!

Want to add some Brazilian flair to your own playing? The Samba Pack is now available from Open Studio! Featuring 7 curated lessons from our roster of Brazilian artists (including Helio Alves, Edu Ribeiro, and Romero Lubambo), the Samba Pack is also our lowest-price course ever from Open Studio.

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To celebrate Carnival, Peter and Adam list off their favorite songs by Brazilian artists. Listen to 'em all in full with our Spotify playlist.

Our 7 Favorite Brazilian Tracks

1. Beth Carvalho - "Coisinha do Pai"
2. Romero Lubambo - "Lukinha"
3. Elis Regina/Antônio Carlos Jobim - "Águas de Março"
4. Caetano Veloso - "Trilhos Urbanos" (also check out this version)
5. João Gilberto - "Estate"
6. Vinícius de Moraes/Antônio Carlos Jobim - "Soneto de Separação"
7. Clara Nunes - "Ê Baiana"

Want to add some Brazilian flair to your own playing? The Samba Pack is now available from Open Studio! Featuring 7 curated lessons from our roster of Brazilian artists (including Helio Alves, Edu Ribeiro, and Romero Lubambo), the Samba Pack is also our lowest-price course ever from Open Studio.

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Peter and Adam teach you how to pay some billzz on this episode with their list of skillzz that all professional musicians have.

7 Essential Skillzz for Pro Musicians

1. Great ears
2. Versatility
3. Openness
4. Grit
5. Ability to communicate at a high level
6. Passion for music & artistry
7. Great technical ability
8. BONUS

Check out Geoffrey Keezer's new course from Open Studio: Elements of Solo Piano. He'll show you the strategies and techniques you need to know to become a better solo pianist. For a free sample, take a look at Keezer's excellent transcribed performance of "The Nearness of You" right here. And for all of our piano courses in one convenient place, take a look at our Piano Access Pass.

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You've heard our favorite simple solos, now it's time for Peter and Adam's favorite complex note-heavy solos. As always, you can hear them in full with our Spotify playlist.

Our 5 Favorite "Busy Solos:

1. Michael Brecker - "Syzygy"
2. Art Tatum - "Tiger Rag"
3. Brad Mehldau - "All the Things You Are"
4. Oscar Peterson - "Autumn Leaves"
5. McCoy Tyner - "Afro Blue"
6. BONUS

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On today's episode, Peter and Adam give you some techniques to enhance your bebop playing right now.

7 Nifty Bebop Tactics to Deploy Now:

1. The double surround "dopio" Cm7
2. Chromatic!
3. Double diminished melodic throw-down
4. Triplets
5. Half-double surround
6. Diminished-augmented chromaticism
7. Delay the harmony for the melody
8. BONUS

Want more bebop tactics? Open Studio has oodles of lessons on bebop, and we've got them all in one convenient place for you: The Bebop Pack. Featuring lessons on a variety of instruments from artists like Peter Martin, Christian McBride, Peter Sprague, and more. See for yourself right here.

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