Yo, Peter.

Yo.

All aboard.

I'm Adam Manus.

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

Music and life advice and inspiration coming at you. He nailed it the first time, folks. Was that right? I was freeballing. That was just off the top of my head, man. I'm an improviser. I love it. Well, today's episode is sponsored by Open Studio. Go to Open Studiojazz.com for all of our online jazz education courses, including all of our piano courses, Peter. We have a few. We have more than a couple. We have so many that I'm starting to confuse them, but I'm going to tell you one of them I'm not confused about because I've been looking at it the last few days. Block chords made easy. That is our latest course, piano or otherwise, right? We like to listen to our members right here, and they were screaming for like a year, something on drop two, something on locked hands. And so we made this drop two in locked hands course. Actually, some of the things we're talking about today with Oscar Peterson playing some blues. You think he could play some black chords? He might be able to play some block chords. No, we'll break some of that down today. but if you want the full thing, go to openstidiojazz.com and check out block chords made easy.

It's easy. It really is easy. You know I'd struggled with it for years. And all those members you said that have been asking for, that was me under different pseudonyms, just so now I can tell you you made the course. So it's all good. Go to Open StudioJadz.com and check out our new course, Black Chords made easy today.

Speaking of popular things, so I got like tons of emails about our episode where we broke down what makes McCoy Tyner sound like McCoy Tyner when he's playing the blues. And we kind of teased out that we were going to do other episodes. Well, people have spoken and we need to be doing

some other episodes where we kind of like break down the characteristics. What's so cool I think

about doing it over the blues is everybody loves the blues. Everybody knows the blues.

That's right. It's easy to like digest. It's easy to understand what's happening. And I mean,

it's just natural for us, I think, here to cover Oscar Peterson.

Really, is there any better, like, jazz blues musician?

No.

A jazz musician who knows the blues, he's the king.

Normally, I'd be like, ah, there's others.

But I'd have to give you an unequivocal, no, there's nobody better, you know?

And you can't really argue with that.

So I'm going to choose from Night Train here, which is, I think there's no better example of him playing a ton of blues on this record.

Over on the daily guide or practice session, we have this thing called the Monday Transcribers Club.

Yes.

Monday Transcribers Club. Starting. Monday Transcribers Club.

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