You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - How We Make "You'll Hear It" - #120

Episode Date: May 29, 2018

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I'm Peter Martin. And I'm Adam Manus. You're listening to the You'll Hear It podcast. Daily Jazz Advice coming at you. Today we're going to tell you how we make You'll hear it. I don't know if this is a good idea, man. You never want to see how the hot dogs get made. You know what I'm saying?

I think that's sausage, actually, is the correct. Either one. I don't want to know. I guess is a hot dog a sausage? I think in some parts of the world it might be. Well, this is a good place to start, actually, sausages in some parts of the world, because we're going to start out with a question.

from one of our listeners. And I believe this gentleman, judging from his accent, is German. I don't want to make too much of a, by his name and his accent. His name is Rainer. And let's listen to his question. Okay. Hi, Peter and Adam. In the past few episodes of your podcast, I was hearing a word which sounds to me like

audible. I assumed it was written like that site for audiobooks, audible. But in that context, it... it sure felt like it meant something different. Could you explain that, please? Thank you. I'm going to say he's Austrian. Really?

Yeah, so Rainer, let us know where you're from, and we'll see who wins that. So you're saying that you can distinguish a German-A-Germo-Austrian accent, a German-Austro accent from a German accent? No, not at all. You just said Germany, and I just picked the only other one. That's right. The only other German-speaking country. So this is a great question

and kind of had us scratching our collective heads over here. And then Dan Martin here realized we probably said in these episodes was call inaudible, the phrase call inaudible. That's right. Yeah. And I think we probably do this more than we should where we just incorporate American football and baseball terms and cliches

into our lexicon here at the podcast. Well, don't get darker. cliches because our whole success of this podcast is built on cliches. My whole life is a cliche. All the cards of this company and podcasts are built on cliches. Yeah, but, you know, yeah. So call an audible Rainer means it's a term used in American football. You know, the offense of a football team will call a play.

And then when the quarterback lines up and they're ready to execute the play, the quarterback can look at the defense, read the defense. And then he'll do what's called calling an audible, which means, he'll change that play at the last minute and they try to take advantage of something that the quarterback has seen. So when we mention calling an audible, we mean it almost in the exact same way where you maybe have a plan

or something in mind that you're going to do and then once you get there you hear what's happening around you or we are doing a podcast and we call an audible that means we're just changing something last minute. That's all. And it's a great place to jump off

into talking about how we make this podcast because I think that we, what this has, become has been a lot of fun for us, but it's really tied in with the title. You'll hear it. The concepts that we use to play jazz music, there's a lot of calling of audibles. So one would say, in terms of playing the music, is the difference between going in and saying, this is what I'm going to play on my solo. I've got it all planned out and being open to reacting in the moment, which is certainly the way we did this podcast because we didn't know what we were doing.

So we've kind of been calling a lot of audibles. Yeah, the podcast actually is a nice little reflection of maybe how you would play jazz even, you know, where you're kind of playing off each other. I mean, it's like anything where you're performing or, or improvising, you know, we kind of call audibles on the regular here because we're, we want it to be good. Well, and then we'll come up. I think the, as I recall, when we were saying this, we would come up with these lists of like our seven favorite albums or whatever, and we always have them listed. But then hearing each other talk about each one reminds us of another one. So we'd say, I'm going to call an audible and substitute in one that.

that we hadn't thought of before. Yeah. Which is fun because that, it just keeps you in the moment. It keeps it from being overly scripted, which no one could accuse us of being overly scripted at this point. Yeah. Yeah, so just, you know, a little behind the scenes of the podcast, we sit in a dark room back to back. With hoods on. Terrorist style.

Not really, not really, not really. No, we actually, we create a bunch of topics and we record these podcasts every week every two weeks, we'll do, you know, 7, 15, as many as we can stomach talking to each other about jazz for hours on end. And then I originally I had been editing these, but now we have some interns that help record and edit, which has been, man, that's been awesome. And we're like basically pro level up in here. We're close to pro level. We're close to pro level podcasting here. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, and I think that the main thing, the behind the scenes thing of how we make this is this is really like a 10-minute conversation between Adam and myself, between us, that we are generous enough to share with the world just to put out there. But just talking about subjects that are certainly interesting to us, but we hope are interesting to the general, I guess, jazz playing and jazz-loving audience. We're trying to figure out if we're breaking out of just the jazz players, which we don't need to. Yeah. But we're just kind of doing what we know. We like to kind of stick with the subject that comes natural to us and that we are, you know, you hate to say experts on, but that we are well versed on. Yeah. I mean, the key for me is that we are always picking things that are interesting to us that we love to unpack and to figure out.

I mean, we joke about creating a list of seven, but it's challenging and fun to create lists of seven on some of these things and making choices. can really make you question, you know, like, how do I really feel about, about, you know, my favorite, you know, vibes players or whatever we're going to do that week, you know, or that day. Oh, that would be a tough one, seven favorite vibes players. And I only know two. Personally. Yeah, well, I mean, and I'm just thinking about, I'm looking at our list of upcoming topics,

and then some that we try. This is a fun little behind the scenes. Some that we tried and ended up being rejected internally. like the famous How to Play a Gig drunk. Yeah. Recommended by Kelly Martin. That one was, we actually recorded that whole episode, didn't we?

Thank goodness that we didn't publish that. We didn't publish that. It was not good. That was ill-advised. Even talking about it's probably ill-advised. My favorite rejected one was though, was what is it, jazz,

fans of jazz who are celebrities that we've met. And this is more that you've met. And there was really, we started recording, but there's no way to do this episode without just sounding like your name dropping. Well, that's what the episode is. You started off the episode by saying,

well, when I was in the White House. No, I didn't start. Did I start that way? You did. You got to grab the listeners and bring it up in. Just like a good solo. But it is interesting. It would have been an interesting topic.

There's just no way to go about it without sounding. Wait, I thought we were still doing that. I thought it just got pushed back. No, we're not doing that. Famous jazz fans we've met. Famous jazz fans we've met. Yeah, there's no way to do that without sounding like, oh, in that time I had lunch with George Clooney.

Oh, I didn't even have George Clooney on the list. See, here's what I'm saying. Here's what I'm saying. Let me add that there. No, but so, you know, you hear us talk about how we get some ideas for lessons from our listeners. And we get a lot of that from our private Facebook group for Open Studio members, which if you're an Open Studio member and you're not on the Facebook group, go check it out. It's on your member dashboard. It's awesome.

A lot of discussions go on in there, a lot of suggestions for podcasts and lessons and things. But you can reach out to us on our Open Studio main Facebook page. You can go to you'll hear it.com and leave us a voicemail there or email there. A voicemail? I thought we were moving away from that technology. A taped voicemail. Yeah. And it's a really great way for us to learn what you want to hear about.

And it's fun for us, definitely. Yeah, and I mean, you know, I think a really cool thing as we get into, what are we, like 110, over 110 episodes is subject areas that folks have asked us about that we talk about and joke about all the time and have ideas about that we didn't really think anyone else was interested in. And even seeing them multiple times and then getting feedback, it's kind of a cool thing with this, you know, we've talked about the global jazz community before. you know, coming together because of the music and the different things that really typify what this music is culturally, you know, beyond just the musicians and the albums and everything that goes about the kind of jazz lifestyle. And that's such a cool thing. I think for us in meeting folks, certainly around the States and then in other countries,

but then to be able to sort of talk about these things and unpack the different ideas. Totally. It's basically, I would say if we were going to, you know, the quick elevator pitch on what we do when people, when I tell people, oh, we have a daily podcast. Oh, really, what's it about? It's about me and Adam geeking out on jazz stuff. Yeah. How's that? How's that for you?

That sounds great. That's like a one-story elevator pitch. Well, so there's a little peek behind the scenes of the podcast. This will probably be the last behind the scenes for a little bit anyway. We didn't talk about any of the, like, mics or anything. Do people care about that? About the mics we use? Yeah.

No, we don't use great mics. Okay. We actually do. We actually do. But, no, we won't, we won't bore you with the technical details. Ooh, he's private. A little cagey on the tech side. Figure it out for yourself.

You'll hear it. You'll figure it out. That's right. No, but as always, you can go to you'll hear.com. You can leave us a message. You can leave us a voice message. Go to iTunes. And if you have the inclination, leave us, how many stars we do?

Well, we were talking six stars, and I felt like it was really. greedy, but then I realized that there's no additional charge for leaving six stars for the user. Yeah, but is it even possible, dude? Well, it isn't, but I feel like there's five. So look, so look, you go to five automatically, and then you go, it's like a virtual one plus one after that. You can kind of click in the place where there would be that six star, if you're feeling it. If you're feeling it. Yeah. Five stars and above only, though. It really does help us, the ratings and reviews really does help us stand our ego, basically.

Our ego. Yeah, it helps us. And then also, you know, on our 107th episode, Spectacular, where we had a nice offer for the Open Studio All-Axas Pass. It's expired. That is expired, and that was, but it was overwhelming how many people got in on that. And we thought, well, that's such a sign that we should take that everybody's digging the All-Axcess Pass. So we're going to leave up for the time being indefinitely at this point. a discount for Open Studios All Access Pass

that's for everything Open Studio makes. We're going to do 10% off. So if you enter, you'll hear it 10 in the offer code field that check out you can save 10% on the All Access Pass. And yeah, then you'll hear it.