Dealing With Minor 2-5-1's

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🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Peter and Adam give a tutorial on minor 2-5-1 chord progressions and what voicings work well with them.Check out Geoffrey Keezer's new course from Open Studio: Elements of Solo Piano. He'll show you the strategies and techniques you need to know to become a better solo pianist. For a free sample, take a look at Keezer's excellent transcribed performance of "The Nearness of You" right here.Interested 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 and leave a comment for this episode.Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Dark. Very dark. Very dark. Very dark.
0:21.1	Very dark.
0:21.5	I'm Adam Manus.
0:37.6	And you're listening to the You'll Hear Podcast.
0:39.8	Daily music advice coming at you.
0:41.5	Coming at you today, we're sponsored by Open Studio Jazz.
0:44.2	Go to OpenStudioJazz.com for all your jazz lesson.
0:47.8	You know, I heard you doing that last week.
0:49.6	I saw you do it, and then I heard you do it because that's the way science works.
0:55.1	You hear with your eyes first.
0:56.8	Exactly.
0:57.9	So that was a fun, and I remembered what the original reference, you may not even know, a little thing called WKRP in Cincinnati.
1:06.7	See, I was more of the WNYC or something like that from the Howard Stern movie. There's that as well. There's that as well. We're talking old school now. So we just did a really cool live stream event yesterday where we did a Q&A. Oh, I thought you talked about when we just played. I was like, that wasn't that cool. It wasn't that cool. We didn't want to, we don't want to show our hand, man.
1:25.1	We did this live stream event all about solo piano. We got a couple questions about dealing with minor 251s. Yeah. And so I kind of realized like, man, I don't think we've ever talked about minor 251s, which is crazy. Are we scared of them? Are we against them? I mean, traditionally, yes. Okay, I guess so. They are. But I thought we could just maybe break down like the anatomy of a minor 251 each chord in the progression
1:27.1	how they relate to each other, and some things we can do to them. Scales, voicing, substitutions, all kinds of stuff. Well, I think that that's a great idea. And considering today's episode is called Dealing with Minor 2-5s, I think we should do that. That makes a lot of sense, right? Let's do it. All right. So what is a minor 251? What do we mean?
1:44.9	Let me say a minor. dealing with minor two fives, I think we should do that. That makes a lot of sense, right? Let's do it. All right.
1:57.7	So what is a minor 251? What do we mean? Let me say a minor 251. Well, it could mean a number of things, but I think typically when a jazz musician says minor 21, what they mean is the two... Is a kid playing a 251? An underage person, right? It's a cadence... Yes, exactly.
1:59.7	No, it's a cadence going to a minor chord.
2:00.2	Yep.
2:17.7	And typically... playing a 251, an underage person, right? It's a cadence, yes, exactly.
2:19.8	No, it's a cadence going to a minor chord.
2:23.1	And typically, the cadence is 251,
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