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

Our Favorite Chord

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

Peter Martin

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πŸ—“οΈ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Adam and Peter discuss the functionality of the elusive unicorn chord. What makes this chord so special? Tune in and find out!

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0:00.0

The Diminishing returns.

0:45.6

I'm at Amanda.

0:46.9

And you're listening to the You'll hear at podcast.

0:49.2

Wait, where are you going there, a little buddy?

0:50.3

I got stuck out there.

0:51.0

I went to go and take my score back, and I got kind of stuck.

0:54.4

Right, right.

0:56.5

Jazz advice, coming at you.

0:57.9

Coming at you today,

0:58.5

sponsored by Open Studio.

0:59.4

Go to Open StudioJadio.com to start your free trial

1:02.3

and check out all of our jazz courses.

1:06.4

Yes.

1:06.9

I want to direct people's attention,

1:08.6

especially to our Open Studio Pro program.

1:11.1

Go to Open StudioJazz.com slash pro. And just a reminder, this is not for pros. These are for people that want to practice like a pro. That's right. Want to become a pro. Practice with pros. Practice with pros. Practice with each other. It's really one of our most exciting pros. We don't talk about it enough. but it's on my mind because we were in New York City last week

1:09.2

and we got to meet up with some of our beloved New York City area. Actually, all the way up into New England, some folks came down, OpenCIOPRO members for that beautiful coffee. It's an incredible community. It really is. It's up today. Peter, what are we talking about today? Today we're talking about what we kind of played. Did we actually play?

1:27.7

Yeah.

2:03.7

Diminished shiz it. Yeah. Diminish stuff. You know, could be chords, could be. Well, specifically one shape. Yes. Which I just learned this morning is called the unicorn. We call it. Unicorn chord. The unit, we call it around Open Studio Pro. We call it the unicorn cord because of the shape of it. Yeah. But it's a very useful shape that you see all over

2:08.9

the place. Exactly. And so I kind of know this thing, but I'm really interested to get your take.

2:13.8

We're going to do this a little bit in real time. Sure. But I'll just sort of start out.

2:16.7

Should we cordy it up?

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