Burning Questions: Help! I'm a Classical Pianist Who Wants to Improvise!

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Peter and Adam are going to be streaming and taking your questions live on Open Studio's Instagram every Saturday for the duration of the global health crisis. In this episode, Peter and Adam will answer a question about diminished scales + dominant chords, and a classically trained pianist wants to know how to improvise.Links From This Episode:If you're someone who already knows how to play the piano but wants to dip their toe into the waters of jazz, we have the perfect course for you: Jazz Piano Jump-StartToday's Open Studio Live Events (All times in EDT):1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)For the rest of this week's calendar, follow this linkInterested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.Let us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel.Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Hey, Peter.
0:01.2	Hey, Adam.
0:02.2	How do you memorize a six feet distance to correlate with your habits of going to the park
0:10.3	and also wanting to keep a safe social distance?
0:13.8	I just think about my good buddy, my big buddy Adam, and I think of him laying down,
0:18.9	and that is the distance.
0:20.4	I need to be one Adam's length
0:21.9	away from anybody else. Perfect. Yeah. I'm Adam Manis and I'm Peter Martin. I'm six feet one inches tall and you're listening to the You'll Hear It Podcast. Daily music advice. Coming at you. Oh, that's good. So we're actually giving an extra inch. I didn't even realize that. That's perfect, man. We're going above and beyond our civic duty. Yeah. Yeah. And if you get like an atom and a half, you're totally safe. Oh, man. You're woke times two. We are sponsored today by Open Studio. Go to Open StudioJadiojazz.com and check out all of our piano courses, including our piano access pass. It's really one of the best values you can find for online jazz indications. We'll
1:11.0	check that out. Again, openstudiojazz.com. Today, we are taking questions from Instagram,
1:15.5	and we've got a great one to kick it off with. This is from Young Tony. And Young Tony says,
1:21.2	how to memorize, I think, how do you memorize the diminished scales that correlate with dominant chords?
1:29.3	Exclamation point. Young Tony is excited about this question. I'm excited about the answer,
1:33.3	young Tony, because the answer is extremely symmetrical and it stays the same no matter what you do.
1:38.3	There are a couple ways to memorize which diminished scale goes with which dominant chord. The first thing you can do
1:46.5	is actually learn the half-hole diminish scale. Because if you learn the half-hold diminish scale,
1:51.5	then you have, it's a one-to-one ratio of diminished scale to dominant chord. If it's a B-flat
1:56.8	E-mano. If it's a B-flat 13, flat-9, know that a B-flat half-hole diminuscale is going to work great.
2:05.8	Boom.
2:06.5	Boom.
2:07.5	That's like number one recommended way five stars would memorize for sure.
2:13.8	Now, but I know what you're saying because when I first learned about the diminuscale,
2:17.1	I didn't know about the half hole. I first learned about the diminiscale I didn't know
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