My A-ha moment was in the grocery store, at the milk cooler. There was this girl who appeared in the cooler, like a ghost or almost like she was an anime character trapped in a different dimension or something... she reached her hand out of the cooler, we touched hands, and she pulled me into this amazing cartoon 80s world.
Love this episode - thinking back on AHAs - one big one was learning that progress isn’t always linear. A flute and sax player, I was studying improvisation with amazing teacher and pianist Charlie Banacos, who had me playing “Well You Needn’t” in a different key each week, along with related arpeggios. About 5 keys in, my soloing really got awful. Sucked. Depressed, I told him about it. “Great! That’s normal. Keep going and you’ll be better than ever after you do all the keys, “ he correctly predicted. Think it’s partly because sometimes I unknowingly raise the bar and only see the gap. But also it’s like rebuilding an engine and all the parts are all over the place. And sometimes fields need to lie fallow for a season. All AHAs in music and life for me.
This episode took me the longest to listen to of any you've done. I just had to stop at each of your references and dig them up. So you took me on a little journey today before breakfast, revisiting some magical recordings and finding marvelous new (to me) performances. For Sullivan Fortner and Roy Hargrove I don't suppose the St. Louis performance at the Bistro that was one of Adam's aha moments is out there on the interwebs; no matter, I landed on one from 2015 at Mezzrow, where even the acoustics captured on the recording took me back to that little club. One wonderful tangent after another. Very cool, guys, thank you for doing this! Now that I've reached your sign off, I need to go find some coffee. ;-)
One of my a-ha moments was listening to Jamiroquai songs, completely falling in love with the sounds but having no idea which instrument was that, and then many-many years later finally understanding that what I actually loved was a Rhodes with some guitar effects pedals. It was also in those Jamiroquai aficionado times that I learned the 2-5-1 for the first time, and I think it was approximately at the same time when I was trying to learn how to play the piano-intro to Virtual Insanity. So, I am happy that Adam mentioned that as well.
'Now he sings, now he sobs' is probably the best of chick. Because he never recorded an album like it since it and its the only one in his discography where chick is straight giving a sermon and preaching at us about the greatness of McCoy Tyner. I'm sure when Tyner first heard this album, he shed a tear.... That album must have sounded like a straight love-letter from a young fan to McCoy when he first heard it.
So many aha moments in tears of the kingdom. Those moments are very much like music aha moments in that you find yourself stuck and you think it and do it. and its like... wow, I can do that in this game? Zelda is profound.
It was the summer before High School and I wanted to be more hip to music as I knew instinctively it would be a requirement. There was plenty of Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and Janis in the air, ( I am old and it was the SF Bay Area) but I felt it was just there, so I decided to listen to every radio station on the dial. Luckily there was a radio station called Kjaz and when I hit it there just this smoking Miles or Cannonball tune playing like Milestones ...just swinging so hard, not plodding, so complex and beautiful.....I knew that was my music in that moment. Had to convert my friends to have listening sessions- Aha!
My recent AHA has been the Gen S recording. In what i have tramscribed so far, Peter's tunes use the pentatonic scales in a really cool and unique perspective. Looking at Gratitude in Motion and Generation S specifically so far
A great topic and fun episode. You guys are in the pocket! One of my favorite "aha!" moments was sitting at the piano and playing the white keys starting on C, then D, etc. realizing that it creates all the modes of major. Creating a distinct "feel" just by starting on different keys and listening to it change like colors of the rainbow was incredible.
heey, they re so many amazing artists i miss here, like mateo mancuso on guitar, and some brazilian dudes on piano like hermeto pascoal, egberto gismonti, or some classical ones like michael petrucciani, and keith jarrett. Hope to see tham soon here! loving the channel!
I have breakthroughs and they can happen at any time, They are quite specific and hard to explain, it is like you already have the information but the way I am thinking about it is wrong or very inefficient, and then out of nowhere you hit a few notes and say well that's dumb I cannot believe I didn't see that, and you just advanced 100 fold in 20 minutes your options are endless because the understanding finally showed up to the party. It is very personal and specific to each musician, it is something that has to be realized not taught
My A-ha moment was in the grocery store, at the milk cooler. There was this girl who appeared in the cooler, like a ghost or almost like she was an anime character trapped in a different dimension or something... she reached her hand out of the cooler, we touched hands, and she pulled me into this amazing cartoon 80s world.
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noticing the whole tone scale in stevie’s ‘you are the sunshine of my life’ was definitely one of mine
Peter's most recent Aha! moment was discovering Giant Steps is 3 keys a major third apart :-)
(Adhered to the agreement)
Love this episode - thinking back on AHAs - one big one was learning that progress isn’t always linear. A flute and sax player, I was studying improvisation with amazing teacher and pianist Charlie Banacos, who had me playing “Well You Needn’t” in a different key each week, along with related arpeggios. About 5 keys in, my soloing really got awful. Sucked. Depressed, I told him about it.
“Great! That’s normal. Keep going and you’ll be better than ever after you do all the keys, “ he correctly predicted.
Think it’s partly because sometimes I unknowingly raise the bar and only see the gap. But also it’s like rebuilding an engine and all the parts are all over the place.
And sometimes fields need to lie fallow for a season.
All AHAs in music and life for me.
This episode took me the longest to listen to of any you've done. I just had to stop at each of your references and dig them up.
So you took me on a little journey today before breakfast, revisiting some magical recordings and finding marvelous new (to me) performances. For Sullivan Fortner and Roy Hargrove I don't suppose the St. Louis performance at the Bistro that was one of Adam's aha moments is out there on the interwebs; no matter, I landed on one from 2015 at Mezzrow, where even the acoustics captured on the recording took me back to that little club.
One wonderful tangent after another. Very cool, guys, thank you for doing this! Now that I've reached your sign off, I need to go find some coffee. ;-)
One of my a-ha moments was listening to Jamiroquai songs, completely falling in love with the sounds but having no idea which instrument was that, and then many-many years later finally understanding that what I actually loved was a Rhodes with some guitar effects pedals. It was also in those Jamiroquai aficionado times that I learned the 2-5-1 for the first time, and I think it was approximately at the same time when I was trying to learn how to play the piano-intro to Virtual Insanity. So, I am happy that Adam mentioned that as well.
'Now he sings, now he sobs' is probably the best of chick. Because he never recorded an album like it since it and its the only one in his discography where chick is straight giving a sermon and preaching at us about the greatness of McCoy Tyner. I'm sure when Tyner first heard this album, he shed a tear.... That album must have sounded like a straight love-letter from a young fan to McCoy when he first heard it.
So many aha moments in tears of the kingdom. Those moments are very much like music aha moments in that you find yourself stuck and you think it and do it. and its like... wow, I can do that in this game? Zelda is profound.
It was the summer before High School and I wanted to be more hip to music as I knew instinctively it would be a requirement. There was plenty of Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and Janis in the air, ( I am old and it was the SF Bay Area) but I felt it was just there, so I decided to listen to every radio station on the dial. Luckily there was a radio station called Kjaz and when I hit it there just this smoking Miles or Cannonball tune playing like Milestones ...just swinging so hard, not plodding, so complex and beautiful.....I knew that was my music in that moment. Had to convert my friends to have listening sessions- Aha!
My recent AHA has been the Gen S recording. In what i have tramscribed so far, Peter's tunes use the pentatonic scales in a really cool and unique perspective. Looking at Gratitude in Motion and Generation S specifically so far
such a great episode. Loved everything you said Adam and found myself in many of your experiences.
You are both amazing teachers, thank you always
The mu chord from Steely Dan was a big aha for me. 🎹
A great topic and fun episode. You guys are in the pocket! One of my favorite "aha!" moments was sitting at the piano and playing the white keys starting on C, then D, etc. realizing that it creates all the modes of major. Creating a distinct "feel" just by starting on different keys and listening to it change like colors of the rainbow was incredible.
heey, they re so many amazing artists i miss here, like mateo mancuso on guitar, and some brazilian dudes on piano like hermeto pascoal, egberto gismonti, or some classical ones like michael petrucciani, and keith jarrett. Hope to see tham soon here! loving the channel!
I have breakthroughs and they can happen at any time, They are quite specific and hard to explain, it is like you already have the information but the way I am thinking about it is wrong or very inefficient, and then out of nowhere you hit a few notes and say well that's dumb I cannot believe I didn't see that, and you just advanced 100 fold in 20 minutes your options are endless because the understanding finally showed up to the party. It is very personal and specific to each musician, it is something that has to be realized not taught
10:26 was that supposed to resemble the sound of a modem? 😂
pretty sure it was harvey mason