This is Adam Manus.

And I'm Peter Martin.

And you're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast.

Daily jazz advice coming at you.

Today we're going to give you seven things to listen to when you're playing in a band.

Oh man, I don't need that.

I just tune out and just listen to myself. Oh, you're feeling it when you're playing in a band. Oh man, I don't need that. I just tune out

and just listen to myself. Oh, you're feeling it. You're feeling it. No, you know, the crux of this is that we're always telling you to listen. It's usually number one on any list we give you. Is it going to be number one on this list? Well, it's the whole episode is about how to listen. So we wanted to give you some specific things that you might think about listening to. You know, when I was in, at the new school, I had a great teacher named Hal Galper,

pianist, and a really good educator, and he used to do this exercise about listening to different

things. And one of the first things that he would always talk about, and one of your main

focuses of listening

should be the time. It's the most important thing in making you sound like a cohesive unit,

of making you sound like you're in the groove. So listen for the time first. And, you know,

if you're a pianist, you can listen to the ride symbol and the bass player and hear how they're locking up. You can listen to the group as a whole. You can listen to just the bass player. You can listen to just the hi-hat. You can pick whatever you want to listen to, but try to feel that time first and foremost. I love that. Yeah, and I think that, you know, bass and drums, that's really where it's at. you know, if you're a singer're a singer instrumentalist guitarist we might be thinking piano too but I would say everybody

the more you focus in and if you look at you know kind of advanced bands or groups

that play at a very high level everyone's listening they're not necessarily talking

about this but in general,

they're listening for these essential elements from the same places. So they start out on the same

page, so to speak. So that's great. Number one, for time. So number two, I'm going to go with

groove as being an important thing to listen to. Now, a lot of you might say, well, you just

said that with time,

but groove is different. And I would say groove, your primary place to listen to this is going to be

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