You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - Cavalcade of Crappy Comments 💩

Episode Date: May 31, 2021

On this comment roundup, Peter and Adam go through some of the less enthusiastic comments they received last 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. Ooh, what art thou whistling, thou pucalowist? It's thou cavalcade of crappy comments. I'm Adam Manus. And I'm Peter Martin. And you'll listen to the You'll Hear podcast. Music advice and inspiration coming at you.

Coming at you today. Sponsored by Open Studio. Go to Open Studiojadogadjazz.com to check out all of those music lessons. What's up, Pete? What's up? Boom, boom, boom. It's Tuesday. You know what that means?

I don't. We're never here. Oh, yeah, we're not. But everything shifted back a day this week. And we're back on our twice a week game, as we say here. We don't always do this, but when we do, we do it upright. We mostly do it. It's now 4.36 p.m. Central time.

Yeah, as we record this. This will probably be. It's already been uploaded. Yeah. Before I finish the sentence. Exactly. This is already done. We used to upload right after we finish.

Now we do it before we've even done. We're getting fast. I wish we, is there a podcast equivalent to holding up today's newspaper? You know, they used to do that. Exactly. Like, we're up, blah, blah, well. I think they used to do that with hostage videos. I didn't want to say that.

I was more of a hostage situation. But yeah, today is today. It's Tuesday, June 1st. And this is just kind of when we get together and look through our comments. And we do get some crappy comments and we joke. But this is actually not, it's a bunch of really good comments. We have to forage. You know, we're in Missouri.

So we're big foragers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We have to forage for the actual crappy comments. We have a huge foraging culture here. Yeah. And I want to talk to you about that because I just learned about a little something about that. Did you know that you can forage not just for mushrooms? Yeah. Did you? Have you been talking to Sugar Rob? I have. Watch it now. He's, Sugar Robb is, is big on actual mushroom forage. Yep. But do you

know about just foraging like, like let's say, God forbid, there's some worse pandemic that comes around the corner. Yeah. We got to be ready. You got to be ready to forage to go out in your yard or maybe your neighbor's yard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you can find foods to eat and survive on. Did you know that? I mean, I live fairly close to the majestic River to Pear, which I don't know. Don't go there, though. I could outfit my entire car. Like, I can replace tires.

I can replace batteries. Yeah, no, I'm talking about stuff. In fact, you're going to want to go as far as you. You know, I live right by River to Pear too. Yeah, the end of it. We could float over to each other with some foraged stuff to share with each other's families. I don't think there's enough water in there between the two of us to be able to get to each other. So are you talking about like you would go out of your backyard.

Are you going to be in the foresting, like acorns? Yeah, no, you can do it. Acorns. And it depends on where you are. but this area would be acorns, those little, like wild strawberries. Actually, they're not very nutritionally complete. Yeah, I know what you're talking about.

The little things that you see in the yard. Dandelion greens. I don't about Dandelion greens. The wild, like we look at those as a weed, but come a time when you can't get to your local whole foods, that becomes your plant-based dinner. Yeah, man. Are you sure you haven't visited down on Bull Rush, man?

Well, yeah, but he's going down in the Ozarks to the big time area. That's true. That's true. And then he's organic. making these. I'm talking about some city foraging that we might have to do. Man, I grew up with a bunch of black walnut trees in my backyard as a kid, which apparently really valuable for their wood. Like, it's really, really nice wood for furniture and stuff.

But I'll just always remember the smell of those green, you know, when they're big and green, right, when they fall. And then they're the perfect baseball throw, right? So you can just like aim it at a tree. Oh, man, you could hurt somebody. You can. Don't throw it. We used to throw at little kids. Yeah, don't do that.

But you throw against a tree and it just explodes. And then your hand smells like black, black, well, you can't. walnut forever. Apparently, like, my grandma used to make walnut pie. I think black walnut pie, but apparently it's like really labor intensive to get in there to get the walnuts going. And then remember the crab apples? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's another good one that's to bounce off some of the kid's head. Man, I see what you guys did out in High Ridge. High Ridge. Everything was a weapon. And I had the pleasure of driving to High Ridge recently. I didn't realize that's so far away. It's like a totally different ecosystem and everything out there.

I picture you're a 16-year-old, not a manis. You're quite, big for your age. You're constantly foraging for extra snacks. You're driving down on the Mississippi River like Tuesday through Sunday essentially to play jazz with people. That's right. And then you drive all the way back to High Ridge. Yeah.

That's good stuff. All right. So the cavalcade of comments. I'm excited about this because today's official you'll hear an episode, which is not the one you're listening to. Well, it is the one you're listening to, of course. Sure. But the one we recorded that comes out usually on Thursdays, we already have a comment about

that. And you might say, how is that possible? Because that hasn't come out yet. It is on YouTube. Fun fact, insider secret. Wow. Our episodes are not just episodes. They're YouTube videos.

So this is something that you came up with earlier today called Standards Deep Dive in which we investigated. What is it? And this is good for the audio folks. This is what you have to look forward to in a couple of days. On Thursday. Yeah, we went through autumn leaves. What is the thing called Love? And I fall in love too easily.

I think this is probably going to be, the standards deep dive is going to be a series, Peter, because it's really, it's been very popular with a, our people on all platforms. And it's really fun for me. Like I've learned so much just going on these deep dyes. Shout out to Mike Moreno, who has his own course called Music from Films, which he does a lot of these deep dives very intensely as well.

So go check that out. But if you want to less deep dive than what Mike is doing, we're having fun times, like finding out the harmony. The bass movements are surprising to a lot of the songs that you know, no, no, no really well. So. But let's not just recap. happen and talk about what we think about it.

Let's talk about what our first comments or jazz dude had to say. Go for it. OMG, guys, you make my life so much better. Thank you for sharing. Well, that's just a feel good comment. See, that's what I'm talking about. That's how we're going to start out this cavalcade of comments with a good feeling. That's just from 10 minutes ago.

Can I go controversial a little bit? So I did a GPS last week on YouTube called Bring in the Heat. No, it's called Language of a Modern Master. Also another series I've been doing. I've done. Sullivan Fortner, Gerald Clayton. And in this past week I did Melissa Aldana, where I just take a bit of language from one of their live videos on YouTube,

break it down and we practice it. And it's always someone who's young-ish, you know, like what I consider to be a living master. And I definitely put Melissa Aldana in that category. I did it because the week before, she had just got signed a Blue Note Records. It's such a huge deal that I wanted to celebrate that. Nice.

And I've been a fan of hers since she was very young. And so like you've rooting for your baseball team, right? Exactly. And there's an up-and-coming pitcher. Right. And they're young. And they're really talented, but they're not quite there. they all of a sudden like MVP making the all-star game.

Moselle Donna is right there. So she's for sure. She's in that spot. So well deserved all the acclaim. But a little controversy here because I didn't know this, but some saxophonists can be A-holes. By A-A you mean. Acorn. Acorn.

Acorn holes. They're foragers. Not at all. I mean ass. Okay. But so, you know, some people are just like, there's this kind of some backward things about, about, really about women playing horns and playing. Oh, I didn't.

I didn't see that one. I don't like that. Well, the only reason I'm bringing it up is because right away, this person was, like, shouted down about what BS that is. Oh, good. Good. See? You know, this stupid trope about, like, the size of the person.

If you, like, look at tenor players from the past, they were not typically large people. No. It just doesn't make any sense to me. And it's always, I'm not to be whatever. But any time I do anything that involves a musician who happens to be a woman, there's always comments like this. I don't like that.

It sucks, man. I hate that. In fact, show me, do you want, we don't even want to dignify it. We're going to remove that comment. I actually don't want to. That's not what we're about here. Yeah,

we're going to, we're going to hide. I, the only reason I haven't removed it is because the person has just taken so much shit. Right. From it. And it's actually Sonny Rollins. It's not that I'm looking.

And we love Sunny, so we're going to let him slide on this. No, just kidding. No. Sunny's like a beautiful spirit of light. He would never. But it's just.

That was the joke. Sorry. didn't come across very good. That's what I was like, who would have been like the opposite that would ever say something like that? That's where... And you know, my jokes are great

when you have to explain them. That makes them even better. But what about all this stuff that was maybe somewhat controversial in the way it should be about everyone, about the same great video that you did and about Melissa Aldanah Sola,

I'd say everyone is thinking too much. Did you see this one? Well, so I asked about, you know, I do as I often doing these videos, especially when they're playing a lot of outside stuff. I kind of put my spin on like, This is what I think she's thinking. This is what I imagine that she's superimposing over it.

No, I think I'm right because I'm stupid. And I always think I'm right. No, but you always qualified. You're not like, oh, she told me this is what she was thinking. I've got some inside line. This is your opinion. This is like from the evidence what I think is happening here, right? And then I ask the people in the comments like, what do you think she's playing?

Like, how do you think she's thinking of these taking this out? That's a cool idea. Yeah, no, it was a great idea. No, no, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so then, of course, nerdy discussions will happen. That's right. As should happen.

We love that. And then those nerdy discussions beget people who are like, you all are nerds, you need to shut up. Right. I love this kind of stuff. Like these kind of discussions and the backlash to the nerdy discussions. I like it all. I'll be honest. Right.

Well, and it was good, too, that I want to highlight your modern master series, which I believe started with Sullivan Fortner. It did, yeah. Gerald Clayton has been featured. Yeah. Melissa Aldana, maybe was a. Ambrose? I know you were talking about. No, I'll probably do. Actually, I think next up

is going to be Aaron Parks. I've had a lot of requests for Aaron Parks. Yeah. And so it's good too because we do get accused sometimes of being like, oh, have you heard this modern pianist and it's someone that's dead? Or that is 90 years old. I've been known to do that myself.

But so we just want to say that. But another thing I want to highlight here since we're going to some negative things, no problem. We're not scared of them. Before we move on, I just want to say that one negative comment, that was it. Every like so much love for Melissa and I think you could feel the community is so proud of her for the blue notes. Some people just want to be noticed. For sure.

So we help them be, which we shouldn't. But there you go. No, but one thing helps that we've, I have to say a little bit of criticism here. I want to highlight because I think it may be valid. Not yeah. No, I mean, it's it's certainly valid. So about your spread voicing, Amad Jamal kind of breakdown. Yeah, yeah.

That was a fun one. Bootlegger Rosie or Rossi said, as a lot of, longtime subscriber to this channel and the podcast, I love your lessons. That said, I'm always hoping you might venture out of the straight ahead realm a little more. Either way, keep up the good work. That's such a great, I love like, that's what we call classic CCC, classic constructive criticism. It's great. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Because it's like you're not, you're pointing out something and you're actually saying that they love to see this. And so that's helpful to us, because you're always saying,

let us know if you like this kind of thing or let us know what you want to see and I'll just say it's kind of a two thing first of all we do we do go out a little bit but maybe it's not considered like when we do herbie secrets and all these different things Stevie Wonder we've got a big Stevie Wonder video coming soon as soon as you and I find about 80 weeks of when's that coming out well we have a great outline for it oh man the outline is superb you all ought to see the outline you just read the outline and the outline is amazing the outline's a little ambitious I'm not going to I'm not going to lie but the thing about this is, yeah, we do, we love getting out of the straight ahead realm, actually.

For sure. We just did a deep dive on TV theme song, theme songs. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I've done some stuff on like, I've done the clavinet grooves one. That was great. That was a fun one. Stevie Wonder. Shade.

Steve Shade. Steve, Shade, I've done. I'm actually going to do, I think I'm going to do something on really soon here. I'm planning it out, but I call it the Bill Withers chord. And it's, it's really just borrowing from the parallel minor. So, uh, four.

All right. Lovely day. Yeah. Now at a certain point. Oh, hybrid shuffle's going to come up in there. Yeah. So going to that four minor,

I think of Bill Withers, I think of Stevie Wonder. I think of Jamira Kauai ripped off both those guys. What I just saw a name for that. Michael Jackson. Like, it was like a backdoor, 251 or something they were talking about.

It's some, it's really borrowing from the parallel minor region. Yeah. effect on modern music. Have you ever heard it called the back? I mean, this is actually adding the two before that. Yeah, yeah, coming up just with yard bird suite, right? They call that the backdoor two five. I had never heard that before. I've never really heard of it. Such a dirty, dirty phrase. I'm against that. I have a, I have a good one here. This is, I love this man. So this is from a, a video that's at least a year old, maybe more. Oh, I love those when they percolate up to the. I know.

And there's a comment. Because you know someone's on a deep dive when they're on a deep dive. There's a comment and it's like, oh, what were we talking about? I have no idea. Yeah. Because there's no context to it. It's on a video called. Dominate your Lidian dominance. Oh, my God. What were you thinking about? I know, but there's just a picture of you going like this. Oh, I got to see this.

Pointing at your arm. And then Barbie Town says, there's a quote, who are you supporting in the presidential election? Brilliant. Thanks a lot, guys. So that was obviously something, a joke we made that was brilliantly timed, I'm sure. Well, we won. So what can you say about that?

Sorry. Where do you see the dominant? I want to see that. I'm pulling that up as we speak. Dominate your Lidian dominance. Oh, dominate. Am I holding you? up a muscle.

Yeah. That's not very muscular. It looks like you are. That's really unfortunate. Who authorized that? And then there's another one too, right before that, actually the same day, someone Compton did on one of your older two-minute jazz is, a deeper dive into pentatonic practice. Maybe that's, no, longer version, it's maybe a year or so ago.

Yeah. Do you remember this one? Yeah. Solo video. That was a JPM, or at least part of a JPM. Was it real long? It was longer version. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. This is awesome and came at the first. This is from four days ago. But you know what? What are we talking about evergreen content? It's perfect time for this person. Sue us because we put out evergreen content. Yeah.

For Ezekio Aguilar, this was the perfect time. I've been trying to incorporate pentatonic into my playing but have really been struggling with fingerings and not trusting my decisions. Yeah. I too saw patterns outline not using the whole hand and it didn't sit right with me. So then I try to come up with my own

but didn't trust my solutions. Thank you so much for sharing your insight into this process. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Okay, so I want to bring on that that's really good. I want to bring up one, but first I I just want to jump back real quick to do some more modest stuff. I would just say that part of the reason we do a lot of straight ahead stuff is not that it's the only thing that we're interested in.

Actually, Adam and I hate straight ahead jazz to tell you the truth. That's not true. That's not true. That's not true. No, but we want to, we do really pride ourselves here on staying in our lane, not so much that we don't have other things that we like and that we feel like we have something to offer because we definitely do. We just name some of those. but providing value as much as we can on the podcast and especially on the YouTube channel

because we're really, you know, people are coming to learn things. And with your GPS series, it's become such a wonderful thing. It kind of came out of the original two minute jazz when people's, you know, attention span was shorter, but because people want to come and see this.

And so we feel like those are areas that we provide a lot of value and that we're really experts in. But we will certainly jump into other things. But then I'll also say it's a two-way street. So we're giving out a lot of content which we love to do but we feel like I don't know for me when I comment on something like I don't just get to a new channel by a search get some value out of it

but then just immediately comment if I don't see what I ultimately need to see yeah but you know what I'm not like everybody that's true some people are me I mean there's such a like some people going hard yeah now I'm setting up what my next thing is here on the same three levels of spread voicing the easy crunchy swing in a majeumal situation that you did Someone said all caps first of all you got to go out all caps bro Why you got to go all caps bro so this is from mark Alagdin a log bin Olegbon bro I so wish you could put up midi keys over your playing Exclamation that's exclamation right everybody has it and it would make your video so easy to follow

It feels like I'm looking at a video in the late 90s you know what this guy wants what dopio he wants Dopeo and he wants to be spoon fed and first of all how many videos have we done? With beyond just MIDI keys, when we have the sound slice, you've done many. So had he kept looking, you might not have done that on this particular one. Yeah. But there's always the like overhead where you can see the hands versus, but we have many videos. Well. With, with a light up keys.

Yeah, I do both. But I will not do twice both at the same time. I will not go dopio. It's just a principle that I'm going to stand on. I'm sorry. At Blueprint espresso, I've seen you go dopeio. Well, I'll go dopeio up on espresso, but I won't go dopio keys on my YouTube videos because I think it looks not good. So I will either go MIDI keyboard or I will go as I did in the case of the spread voicings.

I thought it was more important to see the actual spread of the hands. Exactly. You know what I mean? Well, we talked about this before. It's like which one do we do? And on our videos on Open Studio, the earth's while paid content. We've got a lot of going back and forth and we're like providing the right thing at the right time. I dare say.

But when it's a video that needs to distinguish what's happening between the two hands, I'm going to go overhead camera. every time. You know, and if it's just about melodic content, I'll probably go MIDI keyboard, but just cut me some slack here, bro. Because it's like,

come on, bro. But I love how he's like, bro, and I love how he's like, oh, put up MIDI because otherwise it feels like, I mean,

the late 90s. What's more late 90s than anything associated with MIDI? I couldn't possibly imagine. Yeah, put up MIDI while I install my AOL disc. And then we'll talk. Downloading all night long.

Yeah, man. And then what is this? It feels like I'm looking at a video in the late 90s. Really? The late 90s, you're looking at videos online? So you're looking at a videotape. Did you wait 15 minutes while it downloaded 15 seconds of it? But we love you.

Big shout out to Mark. No, it's all right. I mean, it's, hey, listen, some people really dig the dopio keyboard thing. We've been, uh, we've been loving on, uh, Noah Kellerman. I love Noah, but, but. And he does the dopeo. He does go dopio. And it works for him, but it doesn't work for me.

Not all of his or with dopeio. I actually prefer because first of all, when you get the dopio going and it's half the screen and there's like, like a little head there and then it's all dopeio. Yeah, no, Mark is a subscriber, so I'm not gonna give you too much crap here, bro. No, give him crap, bro. But yeah, he did bro me in all caps about my MIDI.

I got MIDI, man, I got MIDI. And we were going, look, on, why do I sound so bad? Wait, which one was this? I don't even remember you're working on the wrong thing. What do we do on that one? That was a popular one. Do you remember what that was? Oh, yeah, that was where we did the rhythm.

Where we like, oh, we used the rhythm from a solo. For melodic. For improv ideas. Do do do do that. So that one, we had some sound slice going on that. Yep. So, because somebody was asking, this is actually can't pronounce this because it looks like Russian. Yep.

Or Cyrillic. Cyrillic, yeah. Hello, everyone. What's the software with scoring YouTube video founded it. Sound slice. And it's amazing. Absolutely. Sound slice is.

Shout out to sounds like. Big shout out to Adrian and his team over there doing great things. Yeah, yeah, man. All right. This was fun. I love the cavalcade. Yeah. There's more to get to, but we'll have more next week.

We'll do another episode of Cavalcade. We haven't done two in a row in a while, and we've got a lot of comments building up here. Speaking of, if you want to get on the Cavalcade, leave this comment on YouTube. Go over to our YouTube channel. It's YouTube slash Open Studio. Jazz.

Jazz. Is that right? Check it out. Anyway, you know, just Google it. Just put it open. It's actually, yeah, YouTube.com slash, backslash, open studio jazz. Boom.

Boom. No spaces, no hyphens. Why would you put hyphens in? That's Adam. You hear him right there? Three levels of Triad Pairs. Award winning video. That's me. That's me.

You can tell I recorded that at 6 a.m. Because I have low my voice is. Your voice is very low. Yeah. Well, till tomorrow. You'll hear it. Noodles. Vocal noodler.

He's a vocal noodler. Cheers, everybody. Peace.