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

Is There Such Thing as "the Right Fingering?"

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

Peter Martin

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🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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It's another live edition of You'll Hear It where Peter and Adam take your questions - on today's edition, they discuss scale fingering, building a repertoire, and more.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.Wednesday's Open Studio Live Events:1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)3:00 PM - Edu Ribeiro/Ignacio Berroa Drum Conversations + Q&A on YouTubeFor the rest of this week's calendar, follow this linkLet 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

Just above Rob's great question.

0:15.9

Great question, Rob, is Tour Talk's question.

0:18.1

Last week when you were replying about gospel,

0:21.2

use some terms I'm unfamiliar with,

0:22.8

like a G2 chord, also you said going four over five. Sounds like a Pontiac vehicle, right? Pontiac G2. I think I know what Tour Talk is talking about here. So, yeah, like a G2, it's really a G add too, if you're familiar with guitar, which I believe you are. It's really, instead of thinking about that A is the ninth,

0:39.0

because there's no seventh in this triad, right?

0:42.0

That triad is soul seven.

0:44.3

We were talking about like G2 over B.

0:47.0

And this actually goes to a talk right along with that triad conversation I was just having.

0:53.7

So when we have a B, like the third in the bass, which we do with this G major chord,

0:58.2

we don't want to double that third.

1:01.0

We don't want two Bs because it really, it really diminishes the punch of this chord.

1:05.9

But we can add a fourth note to this.

1:08.4

You can augment it with an A.

1:10.8

Add the two, right?

1:12.5

This voicing here in any inversion, actually.

1:16.2

Except for maybe this one.

1:18.0

Oh, even that sounds good as hell.

1:19.8

Hey, J.

1:21.3

B, G, A, D in any inversion, sounds awesome.

1:25.7

So this is what we were talking about when we were talking about G2.

1:27.9

As far as 4 over 5,

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