How to Learn Giant Steps Jazz Tutorial

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Giant Steps is notoriously one of the most feared jazz standards for musicians to learn and improvise over, not only because of the complex harmony but also because of the speed.
So today, I'm gonna talk about how we can learn the chords most efficiently so we can improvise over them well and find out the harmonic secrets that Giant Steps has to offer.
🕒CHAPTERS🕒
00:00 Intro
01:04 Preparing to learn the melody - LIST process
01:56 Analyzing the chords (featuring Brett Pontecorvo)
02:17 The ii-V-I cadences
04:02 Moving down by major 3rds
04:59 The V-I cadences
06:22 Using the melody to organize key centers
07:03 Second half of the tune
07:15 Moving up by major 3rds
08:18 Recap
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[@lifelemonswhenlifegivesule9209]

Great breakdown of a feared jazz standard. Baby step approach in learning Giant Steps 👍

[@WCruttenden]

Minor third

[@pangeaproxima9446]

Awesome explanation!

[@wilsonliberal5195]

Amasing!

[@CarlosNaranjoMUSICCHANNEL]

The way it works for me is through equivalence/substitutions in pentatonic minor, so this is V for 7th dominant (D7=Am) III or relative for maj7 (Gmaj7=Bm or Em). So the first system would be like this: Bmaj7/D#m or G#m, D7/Am, Gmaj7/Bm or Em, Bb7/Fm, Ebmaj7/=Gm or Cm, Am-D7/Am. Of course there are more ways but I think this is the easiest and a good starting point for guitarists, so all we know minor pentatonic ;)

[@markokalcic3113]

Perfect fifth

[@floaty10]

Sharp 4

[@georgwall4906]

which piano sound did you use? sounds so full, with a nice body...

[@almendratlilkouatl]

Flat sixth

[@kevinss6847]

what do u mean 4 and 7 in the movie? 🍿

[@trumpetmusic5672]

Pentatonic scale and arpeggios is about 90% of the work.

[@sergiochagas8058]

Second

[@beat_and_swing]

First

[@Tmidiman]

Ok, now let’s solo,…..sorry, times up. Bye.👀🤨