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You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Why Don't "Pretty" Notes Work in Other Genres?

You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Peter Martin

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4.9770 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Peter and Adam discuss why "pretty" notes typically only show up in jazz.

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0:00.0

Boom, boom, boom.

0:16.5

All right.

0:18.3

We have a question from Norrico.

0:20.6

This time I have chances to jazz up Christmas songs and have thoughts.

0:24.9

How come those pretty notes don't fit for most rock songs?

0:28.6

What's the difference musically or melodically, if you agree?

0:34.9

So I think, you know, Christmas songs, it comes in such a variety.

0:40.6

I think you've got the ones that are like, you know, chestnuts.

0:52.8

Which to me is really just like a great standard.

0:56.1

It's Mel Tourmet, right?

0:57.8

Yeah, it is.

1:02.4

I mean, it's just a beautiful tune with really interesting harmony and stuff.

1:09.0

So there's a lot there to, you know,

1:12.4

pretty notes, pretty chords, cool harmonic, you know, just like any other kind of standard

1:27.3

where you've got these great opportunities to play interesting things around something that's set there um whereas a lot of rock songs i mean look we talk about rock songs that's a big range there but a lot of that it's not giving you as much to to use the same kind of a musical imagination

1:45.9

we're talking about, right?

1:47.3

There's like you have to work so much harder to find that.

1:49.8

And to me, it's not even so much about the complexity

1:52.0

of the tune if you were to do like,

1:54.3

um,

1:55.7

uh,

1:56.1

uh,

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