What Do I Do With Ascending Chord Progressions?

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🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Today, Peter and Adam take a question from a listener on what to play with chord progressions that ascend step-by-step.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.Links From This Episode:Building Blocks of Bass - A new beginner level course from Open Studio that covers the basic, essential concepts of becoming a jazz bassistPentatonics and Playing Out - Adam Maness's new course shows you some simple practice techniques you can integrate to modernize your sound on any instrumentFriday'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 on YouTube8:00 PM - Shelter in Place solo piano concert with Peter 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	Hey, Peter.
0:01.0	Hey, have you ever been to Baltimore?
0:03.2	Baltimore.
0:03.9	Yeah, of course.
0:05.1	Rhymes with Voldemort.
0:08.1	But it's not evil.
0:10.4	No, but they have great lake trout sandwiches.
0:15.2	They do have great lake trout sandwiches.
0:17.0	And they're not trout and they're not from a lake.
0:20.1	But they're not trout and they're not from a lake, but they're great.
0:35.3	I'm Adam Manus.
0:36.2	And I'm Peter Martin.
0:36.9	And you're listening to The You'll Here Podcast.
0:38.5	Daily Music Advice and Inspiration coming at you.
0:41.4	Man, I got to apologize.
0:42.6	I feel like I'm just like a walking, awkward intro today.
0:45.8	Everything we're recording, I just feel like I'm not hitting it in my usual home run style.
0:52.6	You know how I'm so charming and perfect all the time. You're totally on your B game today. Exactly right. I feel like I'm bringing the average down for the squad. So I'm going to try to get it together. You're bringing the light rainstorm. Like we say bringing the thunder. You're bringing like the drizzle. Sorry, I'm just kidding. Now I got your confidence down, I think. You know what? It's about to come roaring back.
1:15.8	The Adam Manus podcast train is about to leave the station. Man, sometimes...
1:20.1	Chew, chew, chew. Sometimes I feel like I can answer jazz questions all day. And sometimes
1:26.0	I feel like I don't know anything about anything.
1:28.4	But I'm going to try my best here because we have an email from Ryan from Baltimore. And I mean, you know, folks from Baltimore can be a little rough. So we better, we better get back to our A game before we, well, you know what it is partly? We're in the pod suite here. It could be back in the pod suite with the giant sneeze guard. and you know if we feel like we're slightly off our game and you look to the side who is standing there staring at us life size edifices of Mr. Christian McBride and Mr. Sean Jones looking down on us and I feel like a little bit Christian's looking to me like you need to get your stuff together right but when we're hitting our A game we're like yeah he's like congratulating like, you need to get your stuff together. Right. But when we're hitting our A game, we're like, yeah, he's like, congratulated.
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