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

7 (Barely) Bear-able Holiday Tunes

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

Peter Martin

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4.9770 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The holiday season has begun, so Peter and Adam list their favorite (or just the least-terrible) holiday tunes.7 Bearable Holiday Tunes"The Christmas Song""In the Bleak Midwinter""Christmas Time Is Here""Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas""Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!""I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm""Amazing Grace"BONUSThis episode of You'll Hear It is sponsored by Anytune. If you want to improve your jazz playing and transcription skills, Anytune is the #1 tool you need. Just load any track you want into the app, and Anytune allows you to change the speed, loop sections, change the pitch to a different key, and so much more. For more information, go to https://anytune.us/youllhearit/Want every Open Studio course for free? That's right - over 300 hours and 1200 lessons can be yours with free lifetime access! All you have to do is enter Open Studio's 2019 Holiday Giveaway. Go to https://learn.openstudiojazz.com/giveaway/, or watch this video of Peter for more info: https://youtu.be/KsdhVXE5ovILike those You'll Hear It shirts Peter shows off on the podcast? Want some YHI swag of your own? Take a visit to our store! Just go to https://teespring.com/stores/open-studioLet us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel.Interested in more jazz advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram at:https://www.facebook.com/heyopenstudiohttps://twitter.com/heyopenstudiohttps://www.instagram.com/heyopenstudio See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, bum, bo, dao, shat hap and do de, do shab and do dow.

0:09.7

What's up?

0:11.5

It begins.

0:12.5

Oh, it's about to jump.

0:14.6

Oh, yeah. I'm Adam Manus.

0:33.1

You're listening to the You'll Hearer podcast.

0:35.6

Daily Jazz advice.

0:36.8

Coming at you.

1:12.2

Coming at you today. We are coming at you. Did we just lose some listeners? Full on holiday spirit. This cat came out with straight up like Peanuts Christmas. Well, I mean, you know, I'm trying to jazz it up. We have a funny thing with our, what we call our cold open. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes it's freezing cold like that one. We always have this moment where we kind of look at each other like, are we going to leave that? And we usually leave it. We always leave it. We do always leave it. Never is good. Well, sometimes we say politically incorrect things, and we still leave it as well. But no, why was I snap my fingers and singing them holiday rhymes? Well, we had,

1:18.3

here in America, we had Thanksgiving yesterday. So today is the Friday after Thanksgiving. We can officially play holiday tunes. Right. Although Christmas trees and holiday sales have been up for

1:23.3

like the last three weeks since Halloween pretty much. I know. A lot of people started very early.

1:26.8

But we thought we would coach you through some options. I mean, listen, there's no surprises on this list. Let's be honest. There's not a lot of holiday tunes. There's not a lot of holiday tunes. And good ones. There's a lot of holidays. There's a lot of bad ones. I actually think some of these aren't even Christmas tunes. And the fact that you say barely, that's why we call this the seven bearable holiday tunes. Very funny. Some of these can be played in an unbearable way, too. You know what I'm saying? Absolutely. Before we get to that, we're going to talk about our sponsor, which we are so excited. The feedback is so fun when you get to sponsor something that it's like we're giving a little holiday gift to you. We know it's right up our listeners out. Yeah, the product is so good. Of course the feedback. Yeah. And so this is AnyTune. And the thing about this, you know, this is how you're going to use this app. You know, because it's a little bit hard to explain. So I'm just going to tell you how you would use it. You download it.

2:18.3

You can get the free version if you're that kind of holiday cheapskate.

2:21.3

That's fine.

2:22.3

No, you can start there, but you're going to want to go pro. Very reasonably priced. But you can start free. Let's say that you're under a little pressure. you got a little Christmas gig coming up

2:15.6

because we are in the season

2:16.6

and you haven't learned some songs.

2:19.4

This is going to let you optimize your practice time.

2:23.0

For sure. gig coming up because we are in the season and you haven't learned some songs. This is going

2:35.3

to let you optimize your practice time. Because you're going to load in your favorite version,

2:40.1

maybe a little Ella Fitzgerald, maybe a little Charlie Brown, Christmas, wherever you need

2:45.2

to learn your song, you're going to load it into any tune. You're going to take your iPhone,

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