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

Tips for Playing What You Hear

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

Peter Martin

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4.9770 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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It's another live edition of You'll Hear It where Peter and Adam take your questions - on this episode, they’ll be discussing tricks to help you play what you hear, as well as how to practice slow and build up speed.Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.Tuesday's Open Studio Live Events:1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)3:00 PM - Piano Guided Practice Session with Adam Maness on YouTube4:00 PM - Open Studio Demo & Tour (for Members Only)8:00 PM - Live Listening Sesh with Peter and Adam (and some special guests!) on YouTubeFor the rest of this week's calendar, follow this linkLet us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel.Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Paul has a great question here. Do you have any advice on being able to play what you hear?

0:18.6

I can hear a sort of melodic outline in my head,

0:21.4

but not any specific notes.

0:24.0

So Paul, that's a great start,

0:27.5

is understanding that what you're hearing in your head,

0:30.7

that needs to be what comes through.

0:32.3

Even if it's not specific to the notes,

0:34.6

you can go a long, long way

0:36.8

and actually sound a lot better doing that,

0:39.4

trying to get that out, than just not hearing anything and running your hands over some

0:44.6

BS that you don't actually care about.

0:46.5

Would you like to give an example of that?

0:47.7

So I can do all sorts of things like BS-wise.

0:57.5

I mean, it all sounds fine.

1:00.6

That's pretty good.

1:01.4

Some people are going to be like, whoa, I wouldn't mind playing that.

1:06.2

Yeah, but I don't care about what I just played.

1:08.3

There's no impact to me.

1:10.3

But if I wanted to play, like...

1:11.6

Oh, he's feeling it. He's feeling it. He's feeling it. He's feeling it. Look at that.

1:25.7

Oh, stargazing. Possible stargazing on his way.

1:28.7

All of that meant something to me as it was happening because it was just what was happening in the moment.

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