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

Should You Use Chord Charts? (And How to Use Them If You Do) - #60

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

Peter Martin

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4.9770 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Today on You'll Hear It, Adam and Peter answer a listener's SpeakPipe question on the use of chord charts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Hey Adam.

0:00.8

What's up?

0:02.1

Nothing.

0:05.3

You really got me with that one.

0:23.9

I'm Adam Annas. And I'm Adamannis.

0:24.8

And I'm Peter Martin.

0:27.8

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

0:30.3

Daily jazz advice coming at you.

0:33.6

No, we don't, I mean, it doesn't have to be like, you know, a big intro every time.

0:34.7

Sometimes we're just chilling, man.

0:35.5

I was just seeing what's up.

0:45.9

No, I mean, for our listeners, there was a long setup to that intro and uh that's why so today we are uh we are going to take a question well should we just listen to it i think it's self-explanatory yeah from one of our listeners go for it

0:50.0

hey guys this is zoom from vancouver i'd love to hear you guys talk about the use of core charts and lead sheets. Should you use them? Do you use them? Is there a right way to use them? Is there a wrong way to use them? Or should they not be used at all? And if you do use them, maybe talk a little bit about which ones you like from, for example, the Share Real Book series or Hal Leonard or IREL pro or you write your own core charts by ear.

1:22.1

So I'd love to hear you guys talk about that kind of stuff.

1:24.3

Thanks.

1:24.5

Bye.

1:25.4

Well, thank you, Zoom, for yet another voicemail question. You've always got great questions, man. Great questions. That's how he gets on the show. That's how we gets on the show. I don't know how we get on this show. It's our show. Yeah, that's a great question. And this is something that actually, I was going to say we've talked about a lot, you and I, but maybe we've never talked about it, but we've talked about it with students from Open Studio. And I think we do kind of have a philosophy on this in terms of lead sheets, chord sheets. Like I'm several of those, I'm actually not familiar with. They may be kind of newer. When I was coming up, all there was was the real book, which was like the illegal fake book.

2:01.7

And you had to literally go to a music store.

2:04.2

Did you do this?

2:05.0

I went to, and I think it's out of business. So I think you're getting scared already. You're like, the one in New City. That's out of business, right? Yeah, they're out of business. Yeah. Baton music. Yeah, now we're confident

1:58.5

to the, but Todd music.

1:59.8

And you used to have to

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