You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - Listener Stories - Vol. 2

Episode Date: January 21, 2022

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Hey, Peter. Hey. It is part two. What happened to swush? Hey, Peter. Hey. It's part two of our listener's stories. That's right.

You ready for this one? I am ready. And you know what? I've pre-listened to some of these and you were going to see the swoosh is important. I'm glad you got it in. I love the swoosh. Okay, great. I'm Adam Ennis.

And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear It Podcast. Music, advice, inspiration and listener stories. Oh, listener stories. Part Duh. Listener stories abound, Peter. Hey, by the way, just a little spoiler alert about what. what's coming for the podcast, for the you'll hear it live on YouTube.

Yes. We have a device here. Now, I haven't seen one of these since 1978. And it's right here on our YouTube studio. You haven't seen a turntable since 1970? No, I'm trying to set it up. Peter, spoil the story, man. Spoiler alert.

No, we do have a, we have a brand new podcast turntable. Right. It doesn't work now. You know what else? It seems like since 1978, I was trying to get the right cables to get this sucker hooked up. We got to have good sound on it. Like, we can't just accept putting a microphone to the speakers. That's not going to work anymore.

It may come to that, though. You'll hear it's season two nonsense. We don't stand for those kind of shenanigans anymore. For now it's more of a visual prop than an audio producing device. But we're hoping next week, right? We're going to listen to some records.

Yeah. It's going to be great. We're about four Amazon orders from some different adapters and cables away from getting this bad boy fired up. Honestly, I think Jeff Bezos should personally deliver these last batch of cables. It's taken so long,

and we spent so much money getting it together. But, you know, it's going to be great. Yeah, it's going to be really fun. So today is part to, two of our listening to your stories. We've been asking you for your testimonials about the podcast, begging you. But we haven't had to beg too much. We haven't had to beg too much. We haven't got a ton of great stories and testimonials. And we're going to kick it right off with one of our favorite members, I'll say it. She's always super engaged, always has great feedback comments,

is very present for other members, a solid pillar in our community. Jan Heffernan, check out Jan's testimonial. Hi, it's Jan from the UK. I'm looking forward to hearing other listeners' stories, so in the spirit of contribution, here is mine. I found the You Hear It Popcast probably about three years ago, but my route into it was through Peter's Two Minute Jazz podcast. I was getting more into piano and looking for a podcast about jazz theory, but if I'm honest, I didn't really understand much at all with what Peter was talking about, but I liked the energy and I liked the music. And I guess at some point you mentioned you'll hear it, and I've been an avid listener ever since. since. I enjoy the combination of information, silly jokes, and the passion for the same music

that I love as well. Since I'm trying to learn a bit more about jazz piano from a background of piano lessons through high school, but not much further than that. It's about the right level for me. Some of my favourite features have been that how does that work, series of episodes. I like the various lists of seven things. I like learning about new music and about artists have not come across before and stories about my favourite musicians. I like the listener questions that you get from the speak park when I was really pleased when you answered my own question, ages of the now, about Kevin Bacon. I was also a fan of the controversial diet and fitness checking that you had at the height of the pandemic when we're all going a bit off the rails. This was just

what I needed. I was also totally taken in by your April Fool's episode, which announced the end of the podcast and I was really upset until I realised what was going on. So I decided to find out more about Open Studio courses, probably around New Year's 2020 and I did the Jazz Piano Boot Camp with Patreon Adam. Then I signed up for the piano access pass and I've never looked back. I've done the daily guided practice sessions with Adam and the amazing piano community that has grown up through this and I love hanging out with my piano buddies from all over the world as we geek out about chord voice songs,

Scales, transcription, how to be in the moment, overcoming nerves, the best colour of OS hoodie, so on. My playing's definitely improved, but more importantly, I've found so much pleasure and musical comradeship from Open Studio. I'm looking forward to continuing my musical journey with you. So the final things to say, I'm for the swoosh. I believe Hump Day is Wednesday and Byron Lovelace, where are you now? Hey, Peter and Adam. This is Hector from Dallas, Texas. Been a longtime listener of You'll Hear It podcast. I remember when y'all just gotten to the pod suite.

I remember hearing that episode. But I recall from one of your most recent episodes is that you all wanted to hear some of y'all's listeners' stories. And I've long been wanting to leave a speak pipe. but this is my first time. But I wanted to go ahead and share that with y'all. So I was initially a classical guitar player. I started playing when I was about 13 or so. And my teacher, he was a jazz guitar player,

so he exposed us to all this jazz music out of nowhere. And it was quite overwhelming but also exciting at the same time because I had never heard this kind of music before. And I had decided, you know, maybe like there's no career in jazz music. So I went to head and go to study classical guitar, which is arguably the same argument you can make. But I ended up doing that. And I remember every day that I would be driving to my classes, I would be dreading going to study this music. Even though I learned a lot about the music, I just didn't enjoy hearing it or playing it.

And so what I ended up doing is that I found Y'all's podcast one time, and I was like, wow, like, these guys seem really, like, cool and, like, not, like, snobby about jazz, you know? And really open to, like, hearing the beginner and all that stuff. And so what I ended up doing is, like, I would just be listening to Y'L's podcast, like, every day. that it came out, I'd put that on first, and then I'd have the NPR lined up. Then as soon as the NPR was over, I would have this whole jazz playlist queued up that was just full of, like, music that I loved listening to. And lo and behold, like, I just kept doing that and immersing myself in the music that I graduated from with my associates in classical guitar.

And then I realized that I was just going to go ahead and study jazz music because if I'm doing music, I'm at least going to do something that I really love, you know? And I had applied to the University of North Texas and Texas State, got denied from University of North Texas, got accepted to Texas State, then the pandemic hit. And at that point, I realized I was like, you know, like I had one month of online classes and that was no fun, like no Bueno, you know, at all. And so I chose to take that year off, the first year of the pandemic off, and just shed, just practice and do everything I can to see if I can get into the University of North Texas. And sure enough, I practiced so much, took some lessons, and I was always like taking little tidbits of advice you guys would leave in y'all's podcasts. and I auditioned to the North Texas and somehow I got in and I was perplexed. It was literally a dream come true.

I did not know what happened, but now I'm here and I'm just living my life and loving everything that I'm learning and fully diverse than the music, listening to jazz every day, listening to your podcast every time I work. and it's been on a crazy, crazy ride. And also the other fact that I have to work and go to school at the same time, you know. So it's a lot, but it's at the same time, it's like, I'm okay with going through this trouble to study this music because I love it so much. And it's brought me so much joy and so much happiness and also sadness, you know, like music brings everything out, you know? But I just wanted to share that with you guys.

Love the podcast. Hope to hear more of you guys come 20, 23, 24, 25, you know, all that stuff. Thank you. Bye-bye. Hello, this is Ruth Greenwood, Ruth Rosen Greenwood calling from New Jersey. I really, really love your podcast. It brings me back to my jazz self days when I was playing with the JazzMobile Orchestra. a workshop or in Berkeley or studying with Charlie Benakis and just never met a flatline

I didn't like. I'm more of, I was at that point more of a sax and flute player, but evolved into a songwriter, but still love to get into the music and, you know, still know who's who. I'm a huge, huge Herbie Hancock fan, Bud Powell. And I just, I love your banter. I love your science. I love your ideas about practicing because, you know, I still am in the mindset of, you know,

it's like, well, you have extra time in your day. Why aren't you practicing? I would love to. Hey, Adam and P.O., this is Mike Benjamin from upstate New York. First of all, listen. Thank you for sharing your passion and your knowledge about jazz. When you're talking about deep theory or you're talking about fundamentals,

you are just as excited and that's really inspiring. I found you on YouTube in late 2021, and I've been catching up on the podcast episodes ever since. There's a lot to go through, and they're all awesome. A little bit about me. I've been singing as long as I can remember, and I picked up the drums and the guitar along the way, sort of at a hobby level, you know, playing coffee shops and stuff,

but mostly just jamming with my friends. I've been looking for piano lessons for a while and I've been picking through the tunes that I know in the real vocal book. I want to be able to have a conversation when I play with other musicians. And the way you guys talk about listening and groove and building vocabulary is the first time that I saw a path to meeting that goal. So I signed up for the jazz piano jumpstart and I've played every day since then for the last three weeks or so.

Shout out to the guided practice sessions. Adam's reminders about focus and intention are almost worth more than mechanics. So thank you for everything and keep it up. Hi guys, this is Mark, French guy, and here is my story. There's this one episode that's one podcast that kind of changed my life, kind of. That was, if I recall it in May 2019, about practice routine and Peter said that one should commit to 15 minutes every day and have a journal to have a structure. So I thought, yes, let's do this experiment. Let's do it for six months and see how it goes. So I did it.

I went quite well. I took the situation again to the piano pass. And after six months, I must say, was kind of disappointed. I thought that would have been much better than that. But I realized two things that should forget about big picture I should basically enjoy the small achievements or celebrate them and as well I should this is not the six-month experiment that's actually a lifetime experiment and that's the two things that I actually I'm looking for now on focusing on it and I hope I will be doing that for many years

I'm still on this life experiment and I kind of enjoy the process of it so that's why in my story thank you guys bye hi Adam this is Gareth sending a message from London England Yes, just a big thank you for all that you do on online studio. Actually, it was a friend of mine, another fellow pianist, who suggested that I check your online lessons and the podcasts. And especially during lockdown, I really started getting into them and particularly got into the... my solo playing as a result of the Fred Hirsch tutorials,

which I purchased and I've been working my way through. I'm a big fan that is playing. And Peter, I love the Friday session that you did with him way back when. I can't remember. Anyway, yeah, just thanks for all of that. But more specifically, Peter, I have a question for you. This short, it's kind of a long question because there's a lot of info. I also want to include the question, but we'll see how this goes.

First of all, I just want to say I'm extremely appreciative of both of you, and I love the, and everyone at Open Studio, I don't know how much of a crew there is, but all the content you guys put out is fantastic. I've learned an incredible amount of musical knowledge and concepts, even, you know, the amount of musical vocabulary I've learned from just listening to Peter Noodle while Adam kind of talks about stuff on a podcast. It's great stuff, so I know both myself and all the other listeners of Open Studio are very appreciative of what you guys do. So thank you.

Hey, fellas. This is Eric here from Oakland, California. I first heard about Open Studio and you'll hear it through the Silver Fox. Brian Fielding was an old friend. I've been enjoying the two-minute lessons from the very beginning and now I'm fully signed on, taking lessons

on the site. And it's been great. I've learned a huge amount that I wanted to talk about one time about two, three months ago when Emmett Cohn was going to be doing a master class. And Brian texted me and said, listen, man, last minute, you do masterclass? Brian be one of the crash test dummies. So I said, sure, after some hesitance.

And went over to my piano and got some stuff together. Next day, Emmett was great. I got a chance to play for him. He gave me some really positive feedback, which I always hold with me now about how he asked me, listen, man, were you a dancer? I said, no, I never danced. I grew up as a drummer.

And he said, well, you must be a dancer because you play like a dancer. And that was one of the best compliments I ever got. And I've been holding it with me as I play. And he also had some more constructive criticism. And overall, it was a great experience, and I was grateful to do it, and it got me over the hump of playing for somebody who was work I really admire. Thanks. All right. Well, there it is.

Those are some stories there. The second to last story, that was Aslan. I cut them off in the beginning. Apologies, Aslan. But beautiful, beautiful stuff all around. Thank you to Eric and Aslan and Gareth and Mike and Jan and Hector and Ruth and Mark. Yes. Thomas and Stephen and Tom and Jonathan and Gordon.

Ryan and Bruce. Thanks. Yes. And if anybody, look, if we missed anybody, it was only because of time. It was not because your story wasn't important or because of our own administrative failure on our end, our apologies. But please feel free at any time, not only when we're giving a call out to leave us a speakpipe at you'll hear it.com. You know, we take questions all the time. In fact, Oslo, we're going to get to his question.

A couple of folks had questions and stories. So we've got all those loaded up. It's going to take us a while to get through them. but we're going to get through them as we can because you guys, they ask great questions. We are blessed. Yeah. Hashtag blessed.

With some listeners with not only great stories, but great questions. Yeah, you heard some teasers there about some questions that are about to happen. Well, and some of them it's good that we need to be teased for me because we've got to go do some homework to get some proper answers to some of those questions. No, we know everything. We know everything.

That's right. Ever since season three. So anyway, you know what? This was fun. Yeah, we should do this every year. Let's do it every year. Let's do it every year.

Especially in January when I think January is a natural time where we're all reflecting on the past year and what we want out of the next year. And so it seems like a natural fit. So let's do this next January. Let's also do something for April Fool's. I don't want to spoil it. But something different this year because we've done the same thing every year. I'm just saying. But you know what?

It works every year. So I think we, you know what? Let's go ahead and announce it now. This is like one of those things. It's kind of like you. I'm telling you, Peter, we need to change it up. Why are you winking at me? Why are you going to start a fight?

Well, no, it's kind of like, you know, have you ever been driving on a highway? Like just a big open U.S. Have I ever been driving? Yes. We live in Missouri. Do you have your licensor? No, you know, but I mean a big, I mean, some parts of the world don't understand. You've seen it in movies, though.

We have these big ass interstate. Which movie specifically? I mean, just anything. You know, on the road again. Dumb and dumber. Yeah. Yeah. So we're just driving out of road.

I mean, not no trees just open. And you'll see a police car like in the middle, in the median. Yeah. obviously with the radar detector on like miles away so if you are speeding you have so much time to slow down but you think wow that's so silly why are they sitting there but you'd be surprised how many people get tripped up in that you know and that's kind of like our april fools thing even if we announce it today and even if we announce it every day it's still going to work that's right yeah people know it's right we're the so look forward to that look i'll even tell you what date

it's going to be april first how about that coming soon too well thank you everybody i mean we really do love and appreciate you and you know We would still be talking about music and hanging out if it wasn't for the podcast and for you, the beautiful listeners that make this great community. But it wouldn't be as much fun. And you know what? I'm going to go out on a limb here and announce something here. Now, Adam, you don't know this. Nobody knows this.

Can you give me a little background music, a little announcement music. Okay. This year at some point, God willing, if it is safe to do so, we are going to, at our new space that's going to have the new pod suite, which is being, it's already been designed. It's being built as we speak. ETA of us going in there to podcast, we don't know yet. But it's coming soon. At some point in 2022, we're going to have some type of contest where we're going to bring at least one listener in to sit and do a podcast with us. It's one thing to have these listener stories.

These are amazing, but this is going to lead to us doing something together. What do you think of that? I think it's great. Man, this new space, we're going to be doing a lot of cool stuff in there. So if only we can get the correct cable for the, it's the only thing holding us back for that turn to. Once we get that, we're going to be. rolling. Where are you, Jeff? Where are you, Jeff? Well, thank you guys again. We're going to see you next week. Back to the regular format. The witty banter, the instructional cues, the useless features.

Yeah, the features that come and go because we forget about them. Until then, you'll hear it.