What Is "Your Sound" And How Do You Get It? - #134

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Peter Martin

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🗓️ 13 June 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In this episode, Peter and Adam discuss what it means to have your own sound and some techniques to help you develop your sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	I'm Adam Manus and I'm Peter Martin.
0:17.8	And you're listening to the You'll Hear It podcast.
0:20.2	Daily Jazz advice coming at you. That's right. Yeah. And you're listening to the You'll Hear It Podcast. Daily Jazz Advice coming at you.
0:22.4	That's right.
0:23.0	Yeah.
0:23.6	Now we're back in there.
0:24.8	That's right.
0:25.1	So this is a very exciting day.
0:26.8	Well, first of all, we're going to talk about what is your sound and how do you get it.
0:31.3	Yeah, we've had a lot of requests for this topic.
0:32.9	Right.
0:33.2	And you see, I'm being very accusatory and pointing at you. You're being more visual than normal. Why is that?
0:37.8	Well, we got Facebook live happening for the first time.
0:39.9	Oh, nice.
0:40.3	So if you're listening to this podcast, just know that this was live on Facebook probably about a week ago. Right. You missed it, but now you're getting it. But we might leave it up, so maybe go check it out. Yeah. Good stuff. So what is your sound and how do you get it?
0:35.9	This is so important for us as jazz musicians, I think, because our egos are so, you know, inexplicably bound to what our sound is.
1:01.5	But maybe we should define what that means first.
1:03.0	I think that's the first step in this is definitely to define what it is to have your own sound.
1:07.4	To me, your own sound is a combination of many things.
1:11.9	It's a combination of your actual sound on the instrument, your feel, the tone you produce, and what you choose to play,
1:20.1	your decisions. It's the combination of those two things. And the dirty secret about your sound
1:25.7	is that it's like, it's probably the most difficult aspect of playing music.
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