Which version of a tune do you use? - #132
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin
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🗓️ 10 June 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Peter Martin. |
| 0:16.5 | And I'm Adam Manus. |
| 0:17.8 | And this is the You'll Hear at podcast. |
| 0:20.1 | Daily Jazz Advice coming at you. |
| 0:22.0 | And today we are going to answer user question, a user. Why am I always calling them? I don't know, man. They're not using anything. They're just listening to us talk. I feel like I'm being used a lot lately. That's what it is. A listener question. That's right. This is Zoom from Vancouver. and we've actually had other voice questions from Vancouver, which is interesting. |
| 0:21.2 | We have a bit of a Western Canada following it. Zoom from Vancouver. And we've actually had other voice questions from Vancouver, which is interesting. |
| 0:38.8 | We have a bit of a Western Canada following, I feel like. |
| 0:41.9 | This is like a voice pipeline between Vancouver to St. Louis. It's very exciting. So let's listen to Zoom. |
| 0:47.1 | Hi, this is Zoom from Vancouver, Canada. My question is about how to handle a situation when you have different versions of the same tune, |
| 0:55.9 | like if someone calls a standard at a jam session or on a gig, |
| 1:01.1 | and maybe different musicians learn different versions of it. |
| 1:04.7 | Maybe they learned it from different recordings, or they're using different chord charts. |
| 1:09.7 | How do you reconcile or how do you figure out which version of the core changes to use? |
| 1:15.7 | Do you talk about it in advance? |
| 1:17.5 | Do you just listen to each other? |
| 1:19.2 | I know you guys always preach about listening, which I'm sure is going to be part of the answer. |
| 1:23.9 | But I'm just wondering if there's any other specifics that would be helpful for us in those |
| 1:29.0 | situations. Thanks a lot. All right. Thank you, Zoom. That's a great question. And, you know, |
| 1:33.0 | this happens frequently. It happens on jam sessions. It happens on gigs. Happens in rehearsals. And I think |
| 1:38.8 | it's one that can be addressed of how to handle, I think, especially if people have different |
| 1:43.9 | changes or different |
| 1:45.0 | forms for the same tune. Some tactics to maybe try to fix it in real time, and then maybe some tactics |
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