You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - Cavalcade of Comments (And Life Advice)

Episode Date: June 8, 2021

Peter and Adam dig through some of their favorite (and least-favorite) comments from the past week.Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.Let us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel.

Hey Peter. Hey. You ready for the cavalcade? The cavalcade of what? Love comments. Oh, yeah. I'm Adam S. And I'm Peter Martin.

And you're listening to the You'll Hear a podcast. Music advice, life advice, philosophical advice. Life advice. Okay. Am I overselling it? I mean, you might be a little bit. Music advice and discussion and banter coming at you. We're not going to teach you how to.

Tuesday style, Monday style. We're not going to. What? I don't know what's going on. We're not going to teach you how to haggle with it like for a new car or used car. Like life advice. Oh, is that life advice? No, I think life advice.

is more like how to open a savings account that's like very practical now I meant more like give more than you take you know love more than you're loved we certainly we certainly do give a lot around here yeah yeah so we can talk a little bit about but it's mostly about two five ones let's be honest but we also take a lot of stuff we take a lot of crap in the comments like these comments we take a lot of love we take a lot of can we start today I feel like I want to start with something so we released a video on Friday last Friday yes It's called Opera Vav, a performance by Fred Hirsch. There better not be anything but very positive things to say.

Well, that's what's so cool about it. All the comments are like this from Noi Man. The microphone maker? Yeah, I think it might be a fan. OMFG, so brilliant. Thanks for bringing this. These are the kind of comments I like to see. Whoa, this is from Chulo David Sito.

Whoa, such incredible feel timing coupled with encyclopedic understanding, yet the simplicity of charm of the tune is still present, doesn't get much better than that. Jeremy Dowler, when you wish YouTube had a love button. See, this is what we get. When it's just not us rambling about two five ones, but it's the amazing Fred Hirsch playing. Right. Rip City, Fred Hirsch in all time great pianists.

For sure. Mark Essendman. That's inspiring. So what you're saying is maybe it's us. It's not the channel. It's not the format. It's you and I. When we pull Fred Hirsch out, not a problem for positive comments.

No. Yeah. I mean, at all. Yeah. I mean, it's like, there's nothing but. Yeah, Fred Hirsch, all-time great pianist, true master on the instrument. Yeah.

Whereas our kind of comments are like, I had a video the same day, which is great. But it was like, my kind of comments I get are like, Mark Levine in 1978, show me triads over triad. That's just the start of one of the comments.

You know where it's going after that. I know. Nothing against that comment, but that's just the style of comment that we're used to. Yeah. I love it. Well,

one I thought we attended to let me refresh here last time but if there's another one it's gonna be so awesome because remember there was a little bit of talk last week about the fact that you don't have oh no that was a repeat okay sorry I thought somebody was saying but it's fun to talk about how we're on it yeah no the dopio keyboard they wanted that they're like come on on they were like all caps like come on Adam I think I've got to have the dopio keyboard I think I made my case against the dopio we did so we did in the episode We did another real book episode last week called Standards Deep Dive

which was very well received. Thanks everybody for the awesome comments. Darren comments, so there was a chord at the end of Frank Sinatra's version of I fall in love too easily, right? Where it was like, it was, we were talking about how there's not a lot of two fives in these originals.

And so it was like a, you know, 2.5 and E flat. Yeah. And it goes F minor 7. And then it's like a B. I put down G7 flatline over B. And Darren said the chord that Adam, instead of the five, right?

And it goes to like E flat over B flat, right? So it's like F minor 7, B, like G7 flat 9 over B to E flat. Yeah. Darren makes a very good point. The chord that Adam analyzes the G7 flat 9 over B at the end of I've fallen love too easily might be better written as B diminished 7. The G in that chord is an allowable tension, which is true, from the diminished scale. And that particular use to the diminished chord, replacing the five chord is probably typical for the way they thought of music theory in the 30s or 40s, which is true.

This is like that Barry Harris six diminished thing, right? It's just a way to resolve, a diminished way to resolve to the one, Darren, you are more right than I was. I don't know. I mean, I would say functionally, well, no, no, I would say, well, yeah, in terms of the original, but in terms of like what we might take and actually play, you know, if we were to take that route, I would write it like that because that gives me more ideas of a more modern way to play. It's not like jumping back into that, but it's not about, what we talked about, which was sort of

bastardizing some of these tunes with whatever's in the real book without an awareness of what the original was. But to each his own. I think there's several ways to skin that cord. Right. Now, I like this when there's some comments from

videos that we've totally forgotten about, but they come like we just made them. It's one of my favorites. You know, and it used to be that meant like videos from a couple of years ago, but now, because we are the content machines that we are, it's often in a video that was just a couple weeks ago. It's totally like off of our radio.

It's true. Forget about it. But this one was, do you remember something called how to break out of your straight ahead rut? Nope. Okay. Do you remember it?

No, but I'm looking at it. It actually was, it was August of 2020. This sounds like when you were on the phase of like, let's take ideas for, like let's get titles that we can really like dig our teeth into without doing too much prep, right? Right. Which is not that we don't enjoy some prep,

but you know what I mean. That sounds like a lot of prep. Must have been done on it. I just don't know what we talked about how to break out of it. But the comment was and this just came in eight hours ago, man, Peter's shoegaze was the most beautiful beautiful thing I've ever heard. So did we have like a shoegate was that one of the ways that you could break out of your. I think it was. No, no, now I'm starting to remember shoe gaze was a bit of a way to break out of the straight ahead. We should watch our own shit, man. This is good stuff. We have another one. Look at what these guys look like that. Look at you. I'm just showing him how we looked at the time of this video. Wow. He's safe. But that wasn't that. Fully shorn. Fully shorn. Face.

Yeah. We hope. And is that hospital lighting? Where are we? Are we at St. Mary's? This is a strange. I don't know who these people are. We did have the sneeze guard up.

Yeah. So the plexiglass. So this was deep in the pandemic, obviously. My look changes quite often. Yeah. Actually. Yeah. So here's another one from an old video.

So do you remember the video, what, when, and how to practice? Of course. I refresh my. myself on that every day, man. I mean, you spent months prepping it. No, I don't remember that episode at all. So I saw this comment come in and I didn't, I saw the comment and I saw the name of the video as what went and how to practice.

And the comment was, I'm from New York and I'll never forget how good he was. And I was like, what could that be referring to? And then I looked at the thumbnail of the video. The thumbnail is a picture of Alan Iverson and a quote, we're talking about practice. So someone from New York talking about Alan Iverson because of how much the Sixers would burn the Knicks with Iverson. Well, this might have just been just a total basketball fan that wants to consume anything with any Allen Iverson reference.

It has no interest in music or jazz at all, which would have been interesting, you know? If you're deep into something, you want to catch it from every single angle, right? It's true. Gomez comments on, I had a video a couple weeks ago from learning an Oscar Peterson solo called How to Swing Your Ass Off.

Yeah. And I talk a lot about playing the root in that video and how much Oscar plays the route. We were just talking about it in the video we just recorded for Thursday's episode. We analyzed a little Oscar Peterson solo. Gomez had a lesson with some jazz guru, and he said, don't play the root. I love how Oscar and Miles, just keep jabbing you with the root like Muhammad Ali, softening you up for the next round so you can feel the tension building.

And he's going to hit you with unexpected, with something unexpected next time around. Totally true, Gomez. Right, right. So you did a, I believe it was just last, oh yeah, we talked about, But the upper structure triads video Last Friday, that's getting a whole lot of love. But I love the passion that folks have on a popular video and a well-done video like that

when there's like one or two, or in this case, three thumbs down. You have 681 thumbs up, three thumbs down. And I say that that's possible that's an accident. You know. Those three are going to haunt me. No, I'm at the 681 where an accident. Oh, no, I'm sorry, no.

Of course, the three. Some supportive friend you are. But no, I love the supportive viewer. and commenters that get mad at like, how could someone not like this? Like they're definitely glasses, like they're not even looking at the glass. They're focusing right in on those three.

But this is a great concept. Couch photography is the person's handle. How can anyone not like this? Maybe they don't understand it. That's good. You know what I'm saying? Exactly. I mean, it is free.

You didn't pay anything. You didn't pay with your time. We talk about that. But I love this how, you know, he or she puts it right back in their face. It's like, how do you not like it? Maybe you don't understand it. You know what I'm saying?

I like this. Spend that turntable back on them. Michael Reimbelt. Michel Rambel. I don't even know how to pronounce this person's name. Rainville. Michael Ramble. He compliments you and insults you at the same time, Peter.

This is the comment. This is from our standards deep dive from last week. He just says, Martin is so funny. He doesn't know your name. He just thinks your name is Martin. Not Peter Martin. He just says, Martin is so funny. I don't take that as an insult, actually.

Because we've got actual insults on here. We're just not seeing them right now. Not like this. Oh, this is also Michelle, same guy. Two nice guys talking about music. Thanks from France. That's all this guy goes. Hey, you know what this video is, everybody?

Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. We've got two nice guys talking about music. No, but it's more like, Hey, everybody, we have de, de, de, de, zone talking about the music. You know, big shout out to everybody. in other countries

that English is not your first language for watching us and for consuming this we really appreciate. We have actual when we do look at the analytics we see a lot of people in France. Germany's big. We're huge in Germany. Us and David Hasselhoff. Dude, when I go live on those GPSes on Tuesday

and Fridays, it's like 50% Germans. Yeah. We got a following over there. Shout out to all our German listeners. We love you guys. And even at a place like Italy, you know, many viewers in Italy, Japan, like South Korea, folks that, I mean, Germany is definitely a place where they're known to speak very good English and I understand. But it's still a second language. So to be able to, and we, most of them

speak better English than we do. Exactly. We're not even that great in English. So I have to listen to this if you're from another place. We appreciate it. So also from last week from the standards deep dive, which is getting a lot of attention as well. I don't know if you remember this, Peter, but you coined yourself a new nickname. Now, you've been threatening to bring in some pool noodles. Yeah. I've got it now I've got it from the basement up to my entryway so it's getting it's on its way here. It'll be here in six months. Yeah.

So you've been and the audience, our audience has picked up on the fact that you have been getting some flack for noodling. Noodling. I'm a noodler. Sue me. As we're talking, you'll be doing things like this where we just. Right. That's actually Adam but he's going a very

great example of something I might do. But it's not, is it noodling or is it background music? Do I bored or my compliment? This is definitely noodling here. But I always think of noodle as like... It's like aimless. You're usually playing something super hip. I'm trying to aim it.

But so you, we talked like Peter the noodles, pool noodles. And then eventually you just, someone called you poodles. Poodles, Peter the noodler. And so you got a couple of hashtags here. Musa. Hashtag Poodle. Poodle. He's a poodle.

He's a noodler. I generally don't think you're allowed to nickname yourself, but Poodle is a great nickname, man. Poodle Poodles Martin, yeah. Okay. Good. Well, we hit some of the high points. We hit some of the low points. Mostly low.

We hit some of the ones in the middle. Wait, what is this one? Oh, so this is fun when, now we talked about going back to videos that we totally forgot about. But sometimes a comment, a recent comment will percolate up to the top of our consciousness. That's from a video that was from some time ago, but we do remember due to breakout success or brilliance being. bestowed upon our audience. And this one is from T. Lou Rizzo. L.O.L. just noticed as a thumbnail,

the poster for the film Altered States with the upside-down William Hurt on the semi-fictionalized role of real-life Dr. John Lilly. I feel you. I don't understand that. Do you? I think they're commenting on the thumbnail

of our altered states, our altered scales video. Where I think it was Dan Martin was still doing the thumbnails back then. and he put a poster from the movie altered states, which I don't know that movie, but apparently it's got a cult following because people who recognize the thumbnail

are like, I'm super into it. Yeah, it was a great movie, and it was a very famous poster with the upside down with William Hurt, in fact. But I don't understand the rule. Oh, Dr. John Lilly, maybe that was what he, that's right. Was that his character or something? That was the character. Yeah.

So we've got, you know, we're learning stuff, we're being clued in, but that's actually, it was a fun video, and that kind of opened us up to other scale videos. I think that might have been the first time we did it. We thought we could do a deep dive on a scale and make something interesting. And it worked.

Yeah. Yeah. Thanks, everybody for the Cavalcade. Keep them coming. Hit us up on our YouTube channel and comment and maybe we might very well read your comment here. That's right. Until tomorrow.

Or next week. Which one? Next week. You'll hear it.