I'm Adam Mattis.

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

Daily Jazz advice coming at yo ears. Daily jazz. What? How many periods are you going to put in that sentence, man? Yeah, you know, like the daily period, jazz. That's what I'm saying, man. What are we talking about today? Well, we were talking about, we are talking about the one solo piano element you're not working on enough.

And I don't mean to point my finger at you. You're pointing your finger directly at me.

It's the proverbial you. I'm pointing it at the audience. I'm pointing it, whoever it applies to.

Yeah, we get a lot of questions about solo piano, because we're both pianists. And I think,

for some reason, people think it's more mysterious than it actually is. And there's one thing that kind of ties all of it together. And that's what we're going to talk about today. And that one thing Peter Martin is, what's the one thing? Oh, sorry, I was distracted. I was looking at an email. Concentration, perhaps?

Sorry.

We're multitasking today. My bad. All right. Closing the computer. There we go. All right. I'm going to try to set that up again. What is the one thing that people need to work on more in their solo piano playing? Time. That's correct. Okay. Yeah. It brings everything together. No matter what kind of voicings you know, or if you're working on stride, or you're working on sway. I don't know. Swag. I'm not much of a solo pianist, but I have a good time feel that goes a long way. Hey, now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, yeah, any of the, you know, voicings, you know, the different zones, all this stuff is fun and interesting, but it's all for not if you don't have a good sense of time.

And it just, I think it goes back to the whole thing of solo piano, we are the whole band.

That's right. You know, and by that, I don't mean we are trying to

duplicate or replicate or substitute for the whole band, like where we're pounding on the piano

for the drums and playing a bass line, no. But in terms of everything that a whole trio or a quintet

or a big band or an orchestra, everything in terms of the general feel of the music with the elements of harmony, melody, and rhythm, we have to exhibit all of that within our performance, a complete thing. Just because people come to a solo piano gig, they're not like, oh, it's only one person, so it's cool if it's not great if you go to a small restaurant as

opposed to like a huge restaurant you still want a fork and a knife and presentation and

all the different courses and good wine and whatever else it's just in a smaller setting and so

for the piano we have to do all that and for some reason the time that's why we say this is the

one the one element that most people are not giving enough effort into.

That's the one area that they let slip because they think, oh, I don't have to play with

anyone in time.

That's right.

But you have to, you know, normally you've got multiple people to establish the groove and

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