Tips for Playing What You Hear
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin
4.9 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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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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