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.
Listen to episode 377
In this episode:
1. Intro
2. The melody
3. Pro Tip
4. The organ solo (by Camden Hughes) – my impression
5. My impression of my comping
6. Pro Tip
7. When I hit it pretty good
8. How I rate my solo
9. How I failed on trading 4s
10. How I rate my trading 4s
11. Evaluation
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See you in the next video!

