Hey, Peter.

Hey.

It's just another Madic Monday. You know what I'm saying? This is And I'm Peter Martin.

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Daily Jazz advice coming at you.

I can't control the volume of my voice.

That's what post-production is for.

Just making it harder on Andrew.

Sometimes I feel like it's my job to make it hard on Andrew. I feel bad about that. Well, we've tried before and we've not been able to trip them up, so. Yeah, that's true. Well, there have been a couple times, though, where things have slipped through. Oh, have they? Oh, yeah, some, the whole bunch of, yeah, there's some things. Okay. Yeah, no one's infallible here. That's true. That is true. Today we're talking about seven-step syllabus to becoming a functioning jazz musician. What the hell does that mean? Well, this is from a question from one of our long-time open studio members. So normally we might have put together something so organized as this. But I'll just, this was the question that came in from

Oetiano via Facebook. If you were to create a chart of progression in terms of things to learn

like a syllabus, from just learning jazz to being a functional jazz musician, what would it be?

Yeah, and we haven't done that. Well, we kind of have to the courses, but it's, I mean, we don't have time in 12 minutes to go through all of our piano courses, but he's really asking about a jazz musician, so we wanted to make this agnostic by instrument as much as we could. And we kind of, we kind of just made a list of things to prioritize, I would say, as opposed to like do this, then do that, because that is literally the courses we make here at Open StudioJest.com. But we do kind of have them. I think these are a nice little order that we got them in, too. It will work. I mean, you're going to need to be learning about it. And I think thinking about all these concepts as you're going through, it's not like you finish one and then you move on there they're sort of building upon one one another but I think if you go in this general order and use this as more like kind of a guidelines and and sort of a like a big scale map totally as you're going and then you can kind of get in and get more granular with each of them. Yeah, so that's great. Now we have seven.

You won't believe what number five is. But what's, uh, we won't believe what number one is. What is number one? Listen. Oh, shocker. Yeah, so number one, we got seven steps here. Number one is listen because you have to do it first. You have to do it early often and you have to overdo it you have to i mean we cannot stress this

enough so we do stress it enough but the idea is that we're seeing all the different ways that we

can apply active listening to our development as artists as musicians as jazz players as

improvisers there's always like there should never be a chance of like hmm how

should I approach this it should be listening it's like you take a bat every time you think about

doing something that doesn't involve listening somebody hits you over the head with it says listen

listen listen listen it should be that much a part of your routine now what are we listening to

recordings other people that you're playing with,

yourself. Yeah. Silence. What's wrong with listening to a little bit of silence? Nothing wrong with that. But your surroundings. Your surroundings. I mean, but the whole thing is it's like, it's like if you're a chef, you're constantly tasting, I think. I don't know. You know more about this because your wife's chef you're kind of a chef right you have to be tasting you have to you you know a bt right don't they

good chefs are always tasting. Always be tasting. So I mean, that because that is how their artistry is manifested by how the food tastes. I mean, there's smell and there's ambience and all these things, but the core element of it. So for music, it's how it sounds.

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