You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - Are We Just Making This Stuff Up??

Episode Date: May 4, 2024

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I think sometimes people get obsessed with like, I got to find the best theory, right? And if I just knew more theory and I understand it. And I just want to just let everybody know, everybody's making this stuff up, how it came to be. Yes, it's a great way to communicate it. And some people have come up with great ideas. But if you get too stuck on the idea of theory as a tool to, like, help you play better, it doesn't work like that. 100%. Yeah, I mean, it can be prescriptive, but it's much better descriptive. And look, this is just the way we look at it. I think we could kind of sum it up to say, like, we're more about theory in terms of how it explains how something works or how something sounds or what the possibilities of once you understand that of how you can apply that to your playing as opposed to like this is how you codify

and apply rules that you can't break yeah like we're not as interested in that that's fine if people that are into that but that's but you can have your cake and eat it too 100% like you can open up the box and understand the engineering like wow this is cool wait turn it upside down oh it looks cool like that too it's so true yeah well until next time you'll hear it