What is Counterpoint? - #62
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin
4.9 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | Bap, bop, |
| 0:03.0 | Boodoo do, |
| 0:04.0 | Boodoo do da, |
| 0:05.0 | Bado-de-be-de-p-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-doo-d-d-d-d- |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Adam Manus. |
| 0:23.4 | And I'm Peter Martin. |
| 0:24.3 | You're listening to the You'll Here at Podcast. |
| 0:26.1 | Daily jazz advice and occasional counterpoint coming at you. |
| 0:29.3 | Was that? |
| 0:29.7 | That was technically counterpoint, I guess. |
| 0:31.5 | It was. |
| 0:31.8 | I kind of slipped into more of a rhythmic baseline because I got excited, but, you know, whatever. |
| 0:35.7 | Such a jazz cat. |
| 0:36.8 | Right. |
| 0:37.2 | Well, I'm going to learn so much along with our listeners and along with you this episode that I'll be able to execute a little better on my counterpoint by the end. How about that? That's great. Yeah, we had a question at you'll hear at dot com, by the way, which you can go to if you ever want to ask us a question. That's right. It's a question from a listener, Leo, and Leo asks, Hey there, could you take an episode to explain counterpoint? |
| 0:37.7 | I hear people talk about it all the time, and I have no idea what it is or the concept behind it. I hope you are well. Leo, thank you for the question. We've done a little bit talking about counterpoint. We've never done, I think, a whole episode on it. Right. You know, it's not |
| 1:11.8 | something that can really be talked about in 10 to 12 minutes in full, but we can kind of give |
| 1:16.0 | you a brief description about what it is and maybe how you can use it in your jazz playing and |
| 1:21.1 | maybe some resources that we've used to develop some counterpoint ideas. Yeah, I think, |
| 1:26.9 | I mean, first of all, counterpoint, if my understanding of this |
| 1:30.6 | is correct, and if it's not correct, I'm too old to relearn it, so this is my concept. |
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