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Thanks for for the unedited video. This is reassuring and helpful. Then, my next question is : what is the hour of "practice" time (meaning after the warm up time that you just showed). What you call "practice" is it learning challenging melodies, work on chord progressions....?
Ultimately, everything is practice. I would consider this warm up practice too. The clarinet is such a challenging instrument, I feel that it is important to spend some time focused on tone and technique. From that point, I will practice tunes, transcriptions, licks, compositions, or repertoire for upcoming gigs. Really just depends on my time and stamina.
I really appreciate you let us in on a full, unedited routine. I was always curious to be a fly on the wall in a pro’s studio during practice. It fortifies my idea of how I should go about a practice session and really get something out of it.
Thanks so much for watching. I've also learned so much myself by watching others do their thing. I remember Branford Marsalis sat in on a gig I was playing years ago. He played 3 notes and I remember thinking, "Oh! That's what it's supposed to sound like!"
I base my warm-up routine on the circle of fifths, mostly moving counterclockwise, taking any excercise I do around the wheel. It strengthens my understanding of harmonic relationships on several levels.
Yes, that is also something I do very regularly. I like to change the intervals to keep my mind fresh. Often, I'll take an idea and practice moving chromatically, M2, m3, M3 and so on.
Glad to see you’re still doing vids! I fondly remember adopting your major scale exercise in one of your vids 15 years ago! Helped me become one of the best at my school!
Gregory WE ALL NEED MONEY. And you are producing an album and NEED TO GET PAID. You work your ass off you are devoted to your music and we want to hear your music. So. We have to learn how to get paid. Is it selling the albums ? Or have a website. Maybe ask Rick Beato he goes at it with artists because they don’t want him playing their music for free! Do you need a website that sells your music. I guess you have that. I don’t. Know. But I am going to figure out how to buy your albums and when I get back home to Palm beach. I’m buying a vinyl player!!! 💃🎼🎵🎵♥️
yes. you're not alone many artists are bemoaning the streaming situation not to justify things but artists have been taken advantage of for decades. great video/advice. solution? none on me at the moment, unless i come into a billion dollars and start competition for spotify. i actually make statements for various publishers from reports from a clearing house. royalties are calculated in micro pennies. not pennies, micro pennies. one stream equals something like .00004 of a penny. kind of criminal.
Competition for spotify... I think the money in this industry is in creating the platform for others to upload to! I also LOVE micro pennies, the future currency of artist. Thanks for commenting! Gregory
The low amount they pay is eye opening 😮. Is it still true today that a musician true source of income would be from concerts or touring? When I was younger the goal was to make a record (showing my age 😂), hope a local radio station would play the record to get the song out to people, with the hopes that those people would pay to come see you play that same song live. Sadly, even then artists were often scamed by the record company or venue they would perform, many dying famous, but bankrupt. I totally agree artists should also know business and how to best market their "product" so they dont fall victim as ones did in the past and some are sadly falling victim now. For example take what they have made with their art and invest in the way you nicely demonstrate in the video.
Hey! Yes, I think the majority of musician income comes from live performance, merchandise, teaching, and private engagements. I can very much relate to your aspirations of creating a record. I think we should still aspire to create great recording, but we need to be creative in how we sell and market them. Financial literacy and creative is key! Best of luck in your journey.
Hey Gregory I'm following your journey online and I wish you well and enjoy your content. My take in this topic - Firstly about exposure. Exposure in marketing means introducing a product or company to a bunch of potential customers. If Spotify features my track on one of their playlists then arguably that is exposure because Spotify are promoting me to lots of new people. However Spotify don't promise to put me on a playlist and it's very unlikely to happen. In fact some people say the tracks featured on Spotify playlists are there because someone paid or it benefits Spotify in other ways - so even if my music is the "best" for the playlist it isn't going to get put on the list on its own merit. If my track is not featured on a playlist and is simply one of 100,000 tracks that get uploaded that day then nobody will see it unless they search for it specifically or they follow a link to it from my website or social media. Sad but true. Spotify has done nothing to give me "exposure" that I couldn't do by putting the track on dropbox Secondly if I upload to Spotify it makes people LESS likely to buy my music, not more likely. From the perspective of the listener they already paid for it (by paying their $15 per month subscription) so they aren't going to pay again. They already bought it - but they paid Spotify not me. This is possible because I agreed to this by uploading to Spotify and gave them rights to sell my music and take the vast majority of any money that comes from that. I think for the vast majority of artists the answer is they shouldn't upload to Spotify at all. If you're an established artists with an international fanbase and healthy revenue streams that don't rely on sales of your music then there is no harm in uploading to Spotify to keep your fanbase connected with you on a daily basis. However most artists aren't in that position. If I'm just starting out and hope to make some revenue from selling or licensing my music in future I wouldn't put full tracks or albums on Spotify! I might perhaps upload 20s teaser excerpts of my tracks so people can easily share or reference them - e.g. "hey mom, this is the guy I want to get lessons from - what do you think?". Just my opinions Best wishes
Love this insightful comment. These are all very complicated decisions to make for ourselves and our careers. There is a lot of pressure (internal and external) to partake in the hot trends of the day: social media, Spotify, and whatever else comes about. The fear is possibly being left behind or not maintaining relevance and connection with an audience. Just as we do with our art, we need to use our creativity to navigate the current business and social trends to create positive outcomes for ourselves and our community. Thanks so much for following and supporting!
This is eye opening. I think some of my teachers of jazz emphasized the how over the what and why, and that slowed my growth in improvising not getting enough theory early on. It was about jazz tone and scoops and swinging eighths... There is certainly some how in jazz just not as much as classical. This how vs what and why view could really have helped me 20 years ago. Luckily for me I've found youtubers in the last decade that really filled in a lot of gaps of harmony for me. ... I think as a youth jazz enthusiast I was looking for how to execute jazz and getting limited results not knowing I should have looked more for what and why. ... Getting there in my own time.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience! I love to hear this. I remember going to a concert with a fellow clarinetist friend of mine. She was an incredible classically trained musician. I remember being amazed by Debussy's use of harmony and texture and she turned to me and commented about how flawlessly the clarinet players articulated a passage. I noticed that our musical training had instinctively trained our ears to observe different aspects of the music!
Yo! Appreciate this so much. I have lessons and transcriptions for sale on my website. What type of book are you looking for: Clarinet method? Life lessons?
@@GregoryAgid wow, i played this tune with ashlin parker’s ensemble at jazz arts, and i was inspired by this video and his playing! such a great tune, amazing job!
@@Lukejdrums1 Wow! Thank you so much for sharing that. I cant tell you how much that means to me. Darrian is my brother from another mother. Also, Ashlin is an amazing human and one of the all time baddset cats. I work with him over at Tulane. I came up to Jazz Arts in 2016 to perform with my band. Its been a while! Please tell Lonnie whats up if you run into her.
@@GregoryAgid wow man, that’s amazing! herlin is actually coming with his band in 2 weeks, so real excited for that. you should come back and play again! i’ll put in a word for ya 🤝
This is so true. I started playing classical flute, as an adult. Learned my scales major minor arpeggios etc. my job was to play the music they way Mozart or others wanted it to be played. I love jazz. My friend this past year gave me his 1958 LaBlanc clarinet. He was a jazz clarinetist for years I love it!! Bought a Buffet C R13. Jazz is a whole different animal and it seems no one can really teach you to improvise 😂. Well I’m getting to know my clarinet , it’s become my best friend, or enemy. And the freaking reed🤣 I’ve gone synthetic. I listen and watch all your videos and I listen to as many jazz musicians as I can. Happy jazzing !!❤
Thank you so much for always supporting my content and career! Learning to improvise is a process that takes years to become familiar with and ultimately takes a lifetime to master. Enjoy the process, its the best part.
This is a favourite topic of mine. What you get from improvisation is an intimate knowledge of how music works - yes, you need to know scales and chords and have an understanding of harmony etc, but most importantly you need to be aware of the aspect of form and how music tells a story i.e. motivic development.....Re classical musicians improvising, there are a lot more these days even though it's not a fully mainstream activity. One of the best experts on that subject is the pianist Robert Levin, and there are many videos on YT of him talking about it. Re the phrase "good enough for jazz", I agree it's dubious, but it's actually born of the understanding that there's a certain looseness that you need to have when it comes improvisation, so my feeling is that it didn't come from a negative place....
@@GregoryAgid Thanks, Robert is an amazing person, with an encyclopedic knowledge of classical music and the ability to improvise in the styles of Mozart and Beethoven.....
This is a brilliant video, Gregory. You have nicely articulated a number of points, which I think cut to the essence of what we aim to achieve when we approach music. If youngsters are taught to think about the two distinct approaches in this way, it could help them make choices and appreciate the distinct attributes of the jazz & classical idioms and what they can offer. UK fan 👏
Yes! Thank you so much for watching and commenting. I think it's important to zoom out and appreciate music as a means of connection and perpetuating the human spirit. I think understanding that each 'genre' has its own standards and practices can help us appreciate the differences rather than judge them by the standards of a different style.
Hey so im the one that asked about the over the break thing I've managed to get it but I cant swap fast enough to catch up to the rest of the band any tips
