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

How to Practice Scales (It's Not What You Think)

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

4.9770 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Practicing scales is notoriously boring - or is it? Peter and Adam give you a better way to practice your scales in this episode.Want to add some Brazilian flair to your own playing? The Samba Pack is now available from Open Studio! Featuring 7 curated lessons from our roster of Brazilian artists (including Helio Alves, Edu Ribeiro, and Romero Lubambo), the Samba Pack is also our lowest-price course ever from Open Studio.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

Peter, what do you know about this?

0:10.7

Hey, man, we're talking about practicing scales, not having fun.

0:14.3

Oh, it's not what you think. I'm Adam Manus.

0:30.8

And you're listening to the You'll Hear podcast.

0:32.3

Daily music advice coming at you.

0:34.9

Coming at you back on YouTube.

0:36.6

Back on.

0:37.0

Don't make me nervous there there there

0:39.9

yeah there they are they're like you know they're coming in on us i knew you know how i knew we were back

0:43.9

on youtube today how did you know you put the hat back i got my youtube hat i'm just i'm rolling the same

0:47.8

podcast styles but we do invite uh our over one million podcast list well Well, over one million downloads.

0:54.6

It's a big statement right there. Over to YouTube. You know, I think a lot of you know that, but we're coming over for selected episodes. Yeah. And what we're really trying to do is highlight the overhead, not the overhead, the light-up keyboard. The light-up keyboard. The hammer 88s, V style. Flying V Hammer 88s. Okay. We're going to go Kitar at some point.

0:51.6

We're going Ketar.

0:52.4

Not with the Hammer 8.

0:53.3

No, they're heavy A.F.

0:54.6

Yeah. V-style. Flying V, Hammer 88s. Okay. We're going to go Ketar at some point.

1:11.3

We're going Ketar.

1:12.1

Not with the Hammer 88s. No, they're heavy A-F. Yeah. So today we're talking about how to practice scales. This sounds terrible. This sounds boring A-F. But it's not. And, you know, scale practice should be a part of every improvisers practice routine because it can be so crucial to being able to understand

1:30.0

the theory behind what you're playing, but also just give you some, like, technical chops to get

1:35.2

around all keys, to get around any changes. It's super important. Yes. It's, it's, you know,

1:40.9

for every instrument, you know, we even went over some additional, maybe we'll do a bonus thing somewhere on a later episode or whatever, just for piano. Well, we actually, we think we've nailed this to ways to practice that'll work for every instrument. That's right. You know, we've been called experts on trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, but we shy away from that because we don't consider ourselves experts on those instruments. Do we?

2:01.2

Definitely not.

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