Jazz Music Explained - How to Play, Listen To, and Enjoy Jazz Music for Beginners! — Transcript

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1. 0:00jazz music has this kind of unique
2. 0:02mystique among musicians two classical
3. 0:04musicians and rock guitarists alike it
4. 0:06can seem like this complex otherworldly
5. 0:09art form that breaks all the rules
6. 0:10you've learned so far about music I'm
7. 0:13Dean de marzo from Paul Ekman music and
8. 0:15I want to demystify some of the stuff
9. 0:17around jazz so this is a new series I'm
10. 0:19calling hey Dean
11. 0:21what's jazz
12. 0:22[Music]
13. 0:28jazz can mean a lot of different things
14. 0:30to different people because there are
15. 0:32just so many subgenres the first thing
16. 0:34that comes to mind when I say jazz is
17. 0:36probably the the big-band swing of the
18. 0:3830s or the bebop of the 40s but jazz is
19. 0:41so much more than that
20. 0:42there's Latin jazz like the bossa nova
21. 0:45and the Samba and the jazz fusion of the
22. 0:5680s and there's all kinds of crazy new
23. 1:02subgenres coming out literally every day
24. 1:04so what are the key points what makes
25. 1:06jazz jazz first up complex harmony
26. 1:11harmony is the way that all the notes
27. 1:13combined to create chords and the way
28. 1:15those chords combine to create chord
29. 1:17progressions most of the pop and rock
30. 1:19songs you know are probably just a few
31. 1:21chords and all those chords usually
32. 1:24belong to the same key think of the key
33. 1:26as a family of chords that all sound
34. 1:29good together jazz composers use
35. 1:31extended chords which are chords that
36. 1:33have extra notes thrown on top for extra
37. 1:35flavor and they borrow chords from other
38. 1:37keys to give themselves a wider tonal
39. 1:40palette to work from let's check out an
40. 1:43example at the piano
41. 1:45[Music]
42. 2:08next improvisation for the most part
43. 2:12classical music is fixed it's written
44. 2:15down by the composer and it's played
45. 2:17back by the performer exactly as it was
46. 2:19written sure the performer has some
47. 2:21leeway in terms of tempo and phrasing
48. 2:23but the notes on the page are what comes
49. 2:26out of their instrument in jazz music
50. 2:28along with other genres like blues and
51. 2:30rock there's a lot of improvisation
52. 2:31involved coming up with something
53. 2:33completely new in the moment every
54. 2:36performance is completely different
55. 2:37because you've improvised the content
56. 2:40playing a jazz song usually goes
57. 2:42something like this
58. 2:43the band starts out by playing the
59. 2:45melody of the song the the song you know
60. 2:47this is called the head then when they
61. 2:49get to the end of the melody they'll
62. 2:50play the chords through again but this
63. 2:53time they'll play a completely new
64. 2:54melody that they make up on the spot
65. 2:56each band member will go through this
66. 2:58process first there will be a trumpet
67. 3:00solo then maybe a piano solo you may
68. 3:03even get a bass solo or even a drum solo
69. 3:05the improviser has to keep track of what
70. 3:07chords the band is playing at any given
71. 3:08moment to make sure what they're playing
72. 3:10fits in with the music
73. 3:12[Music]
74. 3:34this is one of the hardest parts of
75. 3:36performing jazz music because the chords
76. 3:38and key can change lightning-fast and if
77. 3:40you don't keep up your solo gets really
78. 3:42messy really fast musical communication
79. 3:46in any genre of music it's really
80. 3:49important that the musicians on stage
81. 3:50are listening to each other but jazz
82. 3:52music takes that to a whole other level
83. 3:54because everybody on stage is
84. 3:56improvising even when you're not taking
85. 3:58a solo you may be improvising your part
86. 4:00a little bit
87. 4:01these players feed off each other and
88. 4:03the whole song evolves over the course
89. 4:06of the performance something you play on
90. 4:08the trumpet can influence the piano
91. 4:09player or a drummer to change up their
92. 4:11style a little bit and the whole song
93. 4:13can take on a new direction
94. 4:14mid-performance that's part of what
95. 4:16makes jazz performance is so unique
96. 4:18they're different every time and
97. 4:20literally anything can happen
98. 4:21musical iteration playing cover songs is
99. 4:26an incredibly common thing in the jazz
100. 4:28world there's even a few hundred songs
101. 4:30that every single jazz musician is
102. 4:31expected to know called standards jazz
103. 4:33musicians know these songs so well that
104. 4:35two musicians can meet for the first
105. 4:37time onstage and say hey let's do
106. 4:42automatically with no rehearsal
107. 4:44whatsoever and the audience will never
108. 4:47know a huge portion of early jazz songs
109. 4:49were just jazz arrangements of popular
110. 4:52songs of the day from theater and pop
111. 4:55music this is still happening today with
112. 4:57bands like the Bad Plus doing jazz
113. 4:59versions of classic rock songs this
114. 5:01culture of rearranging and remaking
115. 5:04music means that the jazz music that's
116. 5:06already in existence is constantly
117. 5:07evolving and it's also constantly taking
118. 5:10in new information from other genres
119. 5:12this is what keeps jazz music alive and
120. 5:15interesting generation after generation
121. 5:16so how do you get started with jazz
122. 5:18music whether you're interested in
123. 5:20playing it or just listening to it
124. 5:22either way there's a few great albums
125. 5:24you should start listening to Miles
126. 5:25Davis is always a good place to start
127. 5:27namely kind of blue which is one of the
128. 5:29best-selling albums of all time
129. 5:31Dave Brubeck's take five is another
130. 5:33incredible record some of my personal
131. 5:35favorites are Chick Corea is light as a
132. 5:37feather the George Benson cookbook would
133. 5:39is one of my favorite jazz guitar albums
134. 5:41another great guitar album is oz noise
135. 5:43ha I know I'm being biased towards
136. 5:45guitar here but that's my main
137. 5:47instrument I can't help it other jazz
138. 5:49legends - check out our Charlie Parker
139. 5:51Dizzy Gillespie John Coltrane these are
140. 5:54all the essential immortal heroes of
141. 5:56jazz and just about anything you check
142. 5:58out from them is a great representation
143. 6:00of what jazz music is on a more recent
144. 6:02note snarky puppies we like it here
145. 6:04there's a great modern jazz kind of big
146. 6:07band record so start there listen to
147. 6:09those when you find a tune you like try
148. 6:11to learn it on your instrument if you
149. 6:13can try to learn it by ear transcribing
150. 6:15by ear is such an essential process for
151. 6:17jazz musicians it's the way you're going
152. 6:20to learn your favorite solos because
153. 6:22chances are there hasn't been sheet
154. 6:23music released for every single record
155. 6:25you find that you want to learn it also
156. 6:27gives you a deeper understanding of the
157. 6:29music and your instrument there are also
158. 6:31a lot of great books to check out Jamey
159. 6:33Aebersold 's play along series is
160. 6:35essential jazz reading especially vol 1
161. 6:38how to improvise there's also the real
162. 6:40book which contains all those standards
163. 6:42I mentioned earlier jazz is an enormous
164. 6:44art form that you could spend a lifetime
165. 6:46studying so jump in and find something
166. 6:49you like you may not be into every style
167. 6:51of jazz so find one that speaks to you
168. 6:53and start playing thanks for watching
169. 6:55I'm Dean de marzo and this has been hey
170. 6:57Dean what's jazz on Paul F and music if
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