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Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes

Ultimately I gotpretty good at it, and every year I had ateacher who was more able to help...

Ultimately I got
pretty good at it, and every year I had a
teacher who was more able to help an advancing
cello player

Full Transcript

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Ultimately I got pretty good at it,
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and every year I had a teacher who was more able
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to help an advancing cello player.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
23
Timestamp in Movie
00:25:19
Uploaded
Mar 15, 2025
Genres
documentary

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Movie Summary

The life and career of jazz musician Ron Carter, the most recorded bassist in history, featuring original concert footage and insights from jazz icons.
And I noticed that the orchestra, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:06
And I noticed that the orchestra,
So I went and looked around - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:06
So I went and looked around
So my solution is really uncomplicated. - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:05
So my solution is really uncomplicated.
- [Christian] One of the first songs I ever learned of yours - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:09
- [Christian] One of the first songs I ever learned of yours
You said the bass player is the quarterback in any band. - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:05
You said the bass player is the quarterback in any band.
- Would you mind elucidating. - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:06
- Would you mind elucidating.
(audience laughing) - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:05
(audience laughing)
- One of the more knotty questions that we get asked, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:12
- One of the more knotty questions that we get asked,
What kind of bothers me though, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:14
What kind of bothers me though,
No one asks them, what makes Beethoven so great. - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:06
No one asks them, what makes Beethoven so great.
- I want to ask, just on the record, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:08
- I want to ask, just on the record,
Studied the music, studied the form, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:06
Studied the music, studied the form,
- The first thing is I understand what note choices I have. - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:06
- The first thing is I understand what note choices I have.
- You know, so when I see a chord that says F, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:10
- You know, so when I see a chord that says F,
Now what I'm seeing is FAC, FAC, FAC, FAC, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:10
Now what I'm seeing is FAC, FAC, FAC, FAC,
- Now multiply that times a thirty-two bar tune, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:07
- Now multiply that times a thirty-two bar tune,
Some of 'em aren't always great, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:07
Some of 'em aren't always great,
- Russ Davis here at the Detroit Jazz Festival, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:07
- Russ Davis here at the Detroit Jazz Festival,
And who should I be sitting with, but Detroit's own, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:09
And who should I be sitting with, but Detroit's own,
- Four days of this festival playing with the nonet, - Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 00:09
- Four days of this festival playing with the nonet,