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

Are We Just Making This Stuff Up??

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

Peter Martin

Musicians React, Video Podcast, Tutorials, Album, Vocal Stems, Song Breakdown, Album Breakdown, Jazz Musicians React, Song Stems, Music, Musical Life, Reaction, Live Music, Fresh Spin Fridays, Peter Martin, Isolated Stems, Jazz, 194861, Album Analysis, Adam Maness, Kid A Harmony Analysis, Music Commentary, Jazz Tutorials, Music Theory, Jazz Lessons, Track-by-track, Album Deep Dive, Best New Jazz, Chords, Jazz Courses, Music Analysis, Music Advice, Jazz Education, Music Education

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πŸ—“οΈ 4 May 2024

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YHI Audio Short - Check out our latest episode all about the melodic minor scale and how theory can work FOR you instead of against you.

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0:00.0

I think sometimes people get obsessed with like, I got to find the best theory, right?

0:03.8

And if I just knew more theory and I understand it. And I just want to just let everybody know, everybody's making this stuff up, how it came to be. Yes, it's a great way to communicate it. And some people have come up with great ideas. But if you get too stuck on the idea of theory as a tool to, like, help you play better, it doesn't work like that. 100%. Yeah, I mean, it can be prescriptive, but it's much better descriptive.

0:03.0

And look, this is just the way we look at it. I think we could kind of sum it up to say like, we're more about theory in terms of how it explains how something works or how something sounds or what the possibilities of once you understand that of how you can apply that to your playing as opposed to

0:38.1

like this is how you codify and apply rules that you can't break yeah like we're not as

0:42.8

interest in that that's fine if people that are into that but that's but you can have your cake

0:46.9

and eat it too you can understand like you can open up the box and understand the engineering

0:51.5

like wow this is cool wait turn it upside down oh it looks cool like that too it's so true yeah

0:56.0

well till next time you'll hear it

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