I'm at a mess.

And I'm Peter Martin.

And this is the You'll Hear at podcast.

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Mondays through Fridays, usually.

And sometimes, no, never Saturdays and Sunday. Never anymore. We're out. We're out. We're barbecue on the weekend. I was a little disappointing. We didn't get a lot of complaints about that. Yeah, no, no one seems to mind. Didn't we notice? I think we could go down to like two or three days a week and no one really If a podcast is recorded and released on a Saturday and Sunday and nobody listens to it,

did it actually happen? You'll hear it. Anyway, yeah, good to be back in the recording booth here. That's right. We're away from the piano today. We are. Yeah, it's probably for the best because we get long-winded when we're sitting at the piano. We do get a little long-winded.

So we're in the lounge here at Open Studio Central. I'm feeling chilling. I got a Mai-Tai. Nice. Nice little tiki cocktail. What are we talking about today? Well, today we're taking a question from you'll hearat.com. This is a gentle reminder that you could always go to you'll hear at dot com to ask this question.

You sure can.

And to suggest a lesson or a sorry episode topic. Yeah, we love that. This one is from young Patrick Oakes. I remember Patrick, he had a voice question a few weeks ago. I believe he's in high school or early college. He's young man who is just starting out

in this jazz journey here. But he asks a very, I thought, point of question here. He says,

hey, guys, I was wondering if you could discuss something that I've been wrestling with a lot lately.

Recently, a musician that I really admire told me that jazz is almost exclusively plug and play quote

unquote and that didn't sit right with me at all I struggle though to find a balance between

reciting vocabulary and being original with pulling out melodies in my head in other words

I'm trying to figure out what happens inside a proficient jazz musician's head when they

improvise we'd love to hear you talk about this. Yeah, well, this is an instance where somebody, what did he say, a musician that he really admires is giving out bad information. Yeah, absolutely. I would say either that or it was misinterpreted or something. Yeah. I mean, plug and play, jazz has got to be the furthest thing from plug and play. If I understand the term plug and play correctly. Yeah, plug and play is everything else. Yeah. It's like pop music, classical music, that's plug and play, right? I think so. I mean, plug and play, meaning that an individual or a piece of the machinery, the individual is a piece of the machinery that can just be swapped out and everything just continues as is

Well, and the music they're playing is predetermined and they're just plugging it in

Yeah to the song that's what I got from it that that you learn licks that he's encouraging him to

Patrick's teacher is encouraging him to learn licks and then just plug them into the tune

Right, right right right well this isn't a teacher. Well, hopefully it didn't say teacher.

Oh, yeah, maybe I was a musician I really admire.

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