Hey Adam.

What's up?

Do you like playing in a rhythm section?

It's one of my favorite things.

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I'm Adam Anas. And you're listening to the You'll Hear It Podcast. Daily Jazz Advice coming at you. Brought to you by Open Studio. Peter, what do we have today? Well, we have four false starts on this episode, which is very rare for us. It's not very rare. Other than that, we have a question via Twitter. No, we're on Twitter now.

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And this comes from a listener, John.

He says, I'd be interested in hearing you discuss blending as a rhythm section,

specifically how piano, guitar, bass, and drums use their tone to create an acoustic mix without sound reinforcement. And so we kind of decided

just to turn this into, you know, in general, tips is playing on rhythm section. Certainly

the without sound reinforcement, we'll try to blend that in. I think that's a big part of number one for our

seven tips, right? Yeah, you know, when he says blending, there's, I think it's more complicated

than just one thing to do to blend. Like, it is this whole thing. It is seven things. It is a

complete process. Playing in a good rhythm section is an art and it takes a lot of

this kind of stuff. So we'll kick it off with number one and that's our classic number one.

And that is listen. That's right. Got to listen. Now this really apply. I mean they always apply.

Sometimes we force them in a little bit at number one. But man, for playing in rhythm sections, we've both done a lot of this, continue to do this. I mean, if you're going to ignore two through seven, just take this and turn off your radio right now. It's the most important part. And it's also everything two through seven, here the rest of the list, it all hinges on you listening. You can't do the rest of these things without listening.

Right. So this is not like, okay, listen and then move on to the other ones. It's like take listen

and then apply it to everything that we're saying, other things that you learn. And I mean,

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