Getting the Most Out of the Half/Whole Diminished Scale - S3E33
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin
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🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Adam. |
| 0:01.0 | Yo. |
| 0:02.3 | Have you ever noticed I'm kind of a diminutive gentleman? |
| 0:05.6 | Have you noticed that I'm more whole than I should be? |
| 0:37.5 | I'm Adam Manus. And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hearer podcast. Daily Jazz Advice, coming at you from Open Studio headquarters, coming at you from our Steinway here in the studio. Yes. Well, Steinway and Sons. Yeah, we're the Sons. Well, they've got to be longed at the to sons. Yeah, they're onto the grandsons and even the great grandsons. |
| 0:39.7 | Oh, that's good point. |
| 0:40.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.8 | Cool. |
| 0:41.2 | You know, we come at the piano occasionally because you all like it so much. And so we thought we would. We're crowd pleasers. We give the people what they want. Yeah. If we're off to us, we do this at a coffee shop and probably not talk as much about jazz. |
| 0:38.2 | Exactly. |
| 0:38.8 | But I feel like we're at a virtual coffee shop. |
| 0:41.0 | Yeah, totally. If we're up to us, we do this at a coffee shop and probably not talk as much about jazz. |
| 0:55.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:55.5 | I feel like we're at a virtual coffee shop. Yeah, totally. Today we're talking about the half-hole diminish scale, which is why we were saying diminutive and whole. So this is nerd Tuesday then, in other words. And this is nerd week. We just talked about how to play softly on the piano yesterday. Well, that's got like a romantic thing for, you know, for Valentine's Day. |
| 0:52.8 | This is just straight out nerding out, you know. |
| 0:55.5 | Nothing romantic. Oh, is that playing softly? There's nothing romantic about piano technique. Oh, you still have something to learn. Something to learn about the young man. You know, no, so we're doing this week because I had watched you play lots of concerts in the past three weeks or so |
| 1:28.5 | starting at your live stream from mesro and then some gigs you did with diane reeves and shon |
| 1:32.9 | jones and uh i kind of was taking notes for the podcast right seeing like oh what can i get out of peter |
| 1:37.2 | what to do what to do yeah yeah that list is extensive and they don't they don't even know about that |
| 1:42.7 | but uh just trying to squeeze as much right you much juice out of this rock as I can get. |
| 1:47.8 | So what do we got here? |
| 1:49.0 | We got the half-hold diminished. |
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