5 Tips for Playing With Two Chordal Instruments - #80

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🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today, Peter and Adam give 5 tips for finding a good balance when playing with another chordal instrument. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	This is Adam Manus.
0:16.6	And I'm Peter Martin.
0:18.1	And you're listening to the You'll Hear a podcast.
0:20.4	Daily jazz advice coming at you.
0:31.2	Today we're going to give you five tips for playing with two chordal instruments, i.e. piano and
0:39.7	guitar. I'm pretty sure this should never, ever be done. This creates a vortex of thick seventh and ninth chord that nobody wants to hear, right?
0:48.3	Well, maybe this will be five tips to not create a thick vortex while still having a piano and guitar playing at the same time. I'm skeptical.
0:57.0	So this is one that we've gotten so many questions about over the years, perhaps not even
1:03.7	specific to this podcast, but just as pianists. And, you know, I think Adam and myself both
1:10.4	have had occasion to play with some great guitar players
1:13.5	i know i've been very lucky that um most of the guitarists that i've worked with are so good that
1:20.9	it's rarely we have we even had to discuss what our approach is going to be to this potentially
1:27.3	conflicting um vortex as you say between piano and even had to discuss what our approach is going to be to this potentially conflicting vortex,
1:30.0	as you say, between piano and guitar. But, you know, looking back and seeing what works,
1:34.7	and especially listening to different recordings and stuff, it's fun to start identifying
1:38.8	some things that we can do to ensure that they work, especially if you're kind of thrust into
1:43.5	a situation where you don't know the guitar, so you don't know the pianist and just kind of want to make things work. Yeah, I mean, in that situation, it's like any other situation. You're just feeling out the other musicians, seeing where they're going to go and trying to, you know, create the best music you can. Yep. In that situation. So we're going to start off, and I know this isn't something we talk a lot about on this podcast.
1:45.6	You'll almost never hear us. in that situation. So we're going to start off, and I know this isn't something we talk a lot about on this podcast.
2:03.8	You'll almost never hear us say this, but number one is to listen.
2:08.7	Sorry, am I not supposed to laugh there?
2:10.5	Are we presenting these out of order?
2:12.1	What's going on?
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