You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - Getting Inspired by Other Genres

Episode Date: September 9, 2020

Peter and Adam take You'll Hear It live to YouTube and answer some listener questions - today, they'll be discussing other genres of music besides jazz that they've learned from.Wednesday's Open Studio Live Events (All times in EDT):1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)3:00 PM - Edu Ribeiro Drum Conversations + Q&A on YouTubeFor the rest of this week's calendar, follow this linkInterested 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.Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Um, here's another great one. Uh, what would you say? This is from Buster. What's up Buster? What would you say is the genre, uh, you have learned. Yeah.

The most from playing. Uh-huh. Besides jazz. So I'll take a stab of this. I would say, um, ooh, well, if it's just for like playing piano and for music,

I would say classical. Uh, if that's a genre, I guess it's a genre. Um, just because I spent a lot of time, I kind of started there, came up doing a lot of classical, really learned a lot of technical attributes of the instrument approaches

and just theoretical stuff. Certainly a lot of things that I was able to, I've been able to apply to my jazz playing. But there's other genres that have informed perhaps more directly my playing. I'm thinking of blues, gospel, funk, R&B, pop. Um, Irish jig songs. No. Okay.

I was just listening if you were listening to you're listening. Uh, but I think, uh, yeah, but I think classical, but that, that's just very peculiar to me in terms of like that's, uh, just something I spent a lot of time and sort of ended up being a big part of my technical thing and sort of theoretical approach. How about you, Adam? Yeah, I would, I would agree. So I don't think there's, I don't think there's any one genre that has like been more valuable to my jazz playing.

I consider, I really. I honestly, you know me, man. I don't like to put like hard lines on any of this stuff. I consider myself. Don't box me in, bro. I really tell me that all the time. Dude, I know it's cliche, but I really do feel like I'm a musician. I think the music that I like, right?

I make music that I think is good. Those are my criteria. I listen to music that I think is good. It doesn't really, it's so cheesy even hearing me say it out loud. No, this is great because you're like, you're trying to come across as totally non-dogmatic and open, but you're being super dogmatic about being non-non-negotiable. dogmatic. I know. Well, you know, I'm an enigma wrapped up in a conundrum. But no, seriously, I really, I, I, I, everything you mentioned, classical R&B for sure, funk for sure is a huge

part of my young development, especially. What about country and or Western? Do you consider those two distinct genres? Country, country and Western. I'm like, what about just country or what about just Western? No, they are different genres for sure. And actually, yeah, I think Hank Williams and Willie Nelson, I listened to a lot of, uh, when I was, uh, when I was, you know, in my early 20s, Ray Charles and his country albums, which are really just soul albums, but with country songs

and are so, so good. Like that all, I mean, actually, you know, Ray Charles is one of the biggest piano influences on me of anybody. And, you know, I'm such a fan of his that, you know, that,

that's what I'm saying. It's like, I like, I like people. I like, I have my people that I like, you know what I mean? And so I don't really think too much about genres. And if we talk about, Astropiadzola, you know,

tango? I really do. He's been a huge influence on me. Yeah. Yeah. And I think like you say Ray Charles, when we talk about somebody like that being an influence, you're getting like you can't say, oh, that's R&B or that's blues. Yeah. Or that's country. I mean, it's everything wrapped up in a beautiful package in which you can. But I was taking the question more as like just influence one's development too. So it's kind of two different things, both interesting and important. Yeah. There's so much good music, man. There's just from all genres. It's great. Yeah. And, And Amy's mentioning Brazilian. Yeah, for sure.

That's like been a big influence on us, especially over the last few years. But I mean, for me, it was like I always loved that sound. And when I first went to Brazil, I mean, it's silly because, you know, in this day and age, you can get almost everything from a culture musically from recordings and from videos and from all the accessibility. There's very few isolated places culturally in the world. There are some, I'm sure. How do we know?

They're not on YouTube, you know? But there was something about like when I went to Brazil, and it's so corny because you're like, does the Boston over really sound different there? I don't know. It doesn't. It's the same stuff. And the musicians come. I mean, there was at one time there was probably more, possibly even now, more amazing Brazilian musicians outside of Brazil than in Brazil. You know, there have been periods like that.

Especially like in the 70s when the dictatorship was there. That's when a lot of the cats left. But I think being there and making some connections. with the people and the food and the beach and the mountains and the whole thing definitely sort of if nothing else invigorated my interest and excitement about that to want to learn how to play the music even better. All right. Let's take one more question and we'll call it quits on our...

How do we pull this off, man? We didn't think this was going to work, did we? We never know. We never know. And look, I'd encourage everybody here. We would encourage. The you'll hear a podcast is all about experiment. How did we start?

Why don't you give them all just a quick, some, we might have some newer folks, the quick origin story on you'll hear. I remember it was a Wednesday. And I remember you walked in to the studio and you said, we're starting a daily podcast.

And I was like, what? Was I that dogmatic and mean and nasty about it? No, no, it wasn't mean. You were just like, hey, you got your coffee? I was like, yeah, good. We're starting a daily podcast. And I was like, what?

And yeah, so, you know, now we're doing three days a week and we're live on YouTube. Yeah, exactly. Now, to be clear, this was your question last Friday. You were like, We're going to go live on Monday.

So you kind of threw it back in my face, which is cool. Roney or Ronnie says, what does that mean S?N? I should know that. You know? No, no, no. This question is read. Peter, I did a short transcription of your rendition of mental phrasing and emotion in motion on IG. Oh, thank you.

Thank you very much. I'll definitely check that out. I hope you tag me, but I'll look for you on there as soon as we're done. Thanks, Colleen. Yeah, this is going to be every Monday. And we're going to step it up next Monday. I think we're starting at a solid foundation here. Yeah, this is great.

And we'll come to answer your questions. So whatever you're working on, let us know what you're working on. And we can talk about it. We can play through it. Like if you're working on a tune, we're happy to like take questions about a tune or our approach to it. You know, talk about how we learned it and how we want to, you know, think about it. Yep. Or a scale or whatever the hell you want to talk about.

And we're available in case, in case we have any like, you know, kind of hardcore YouTube folks. We, I don't know if you're not in the podcast or if you are. but if you're thinking about getting into it, we're available everywhere. You can get a podcast, Spotify, Apple, of course, all the usual places. But we do this three times a week. We are thinking, you don't even know about this, Adam,

about going back to five days a week. Our friend Joe out of Houston has been putting some pressure via Twitter, man. He knows that he can get me on Twitter. And he's right, you know, we've even, we do miss the daily. We're just trying to work into the schedule with the new things that we have.

But we have a special thing there. It's audio only. It's the OG. And we want to say also thank you to Dan. who says, thanks you guys so much. I've been a fan of the pod since spring 2018.

So that's OG, right? That's when we started it pretty much. February of 2018. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds so slick, fellas. I got to play with the inside outside stuff too.

Oh, yeah, that's back when we were talking about that. And, yeah. Cool. Should we do any? Oh, thank you, Procreation Sound. That's so kind of you. Euros. We love Euros because they're always worth more than dollars.

We know that, especially in this day and age, right? Do you have any sound effects on that thing? Can you do like a like Chaching? No, that was the other thing we're going to get it. Remember the other? It's going to be a lot of buttons to press though.

Roney asks, I'm not sure if this question was asked, but do you guys have any projects that you're currently working on? Well, you have something that I don't know if you're allowed to talk about it that you were writing over the weekend, right? Yeah, that's a video project for a friend

that I wrote an arrangement of Charlie Chaplin's Smile on. I'm currently working on a new 442 album. I don't know if you knew that or not. I didn't know. I know you guys had been in the studio and recording. Yeah, yeah. I didn't know if that was completed. And we might have a 442s live stream coming soon. I'm trying to put a little pressure on you about that. Yeah, we're trying to make it happen. That should be fun, yeah.

442s is my band with some classical musicians. And Buster asks, who is the most inspiring composer right now, according to you? Buster, if you don't know Caleb Burhan's music, go check out Caleb Burrhan's. It's my favorite young composer right now, youngish. Yeah. And then my friend Christopher Stark, who is amazing. He is. Absolutely.

I would second that for sure. All right. We're going to be back on Monday next week, right? Do you know how to get out of this thing, Pete? Oh, we're going to go. Oh, wait. No, you know what? We got to keep talking.

Hold on. I got you covered. I got you covered. I don't know if this is going to work. We might have to go back to the vamp, though. Are you ready to go back to the vamp? You can do that. But I'm going to play the intro for the outro.

Oh, I see. Monday.