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

Our Favorite Reharm Hacks - #28

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

Peter Martin

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🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Today, Peter and Adam take you through their favorite reharms. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Hey, that's not the real changes, buddy.

0:05.0

What do you do?

0:06.0

No, it's not?

0:07.0

Come on, man.

0:08.0

What do you think this is?

0:09.0

I'm Adam Anis, and I'm Peter Ennis.

0:23.6

And I'm Peter Martin.

0:24.5

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

0:26.7

Daily Jazz Advice coming at you.

0:28.4

Coming at you again from the Steinway O'Hare at You'll Here at Studios here in Midtown, St. Louis, Missouri.

0:33.7

I love these little Steinway seated days, man.

0:36.2

These are fun.

0:36.9

I mean, we're out of the Pod Cave. It's less musty over here than the pod cave. Yeah, weirdly, the pianist like being around a piano. It's odd. Yep. So we're back. We're back. And we're answering a user question. This is from one of our regular listeners, Mark in Vancouver, had asked about reharmes. Nice.

0:55.0

And I couldn't quite figure out if you wanted specific recordings of reharms, but we're

0:59.0

just going to talk about kind of our favorite reharm hacks.

1:02.0

Maybe some simple things you can implement right away on your gigs, on your playing to help you kind of add a little sparkle,

1:10.0

add a little color.

1:11.1

A little interest.

1:11.7

Wake up the audience sometimes. Wake up the audience. Like, what? Is that even legal? That's not a tonic. That's a gin and tonic. What's going on? Sorry. No, I was just thinking, should we say what reharm is? We're making an assumption. We are making a huge assumption. So when we say re-harm, we're talking about re-harminization.

1:08.9

We're talking about taking sort of agreed-upon chord changes under a melody. Agreed upon as in they were written by the composer. Agreed upon by us and the composer. It's a two-way street. I mean, hey, honestly, most jazz standards everybody plays are already reharmine. They are, exactly. They're not the original changes that you're playing. If you learned it from Miles' recording, it's definitely a re-harmed. But you can take that even further, and there are some sort of cliches and some hacks that we can do to re-harm. So if you don't mind, I'll just get right into it. Get right into it. My very favorite

2:01.2

reharm trick to do. My favorite reharm trick is that the last note of a standard, usually

2:07.6

standards end on the tonic, right, where the melody ends on the one. Yeah. So if we're in the key of

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