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Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

Author: GBK
Date: 2007-03-27 04:26

We've all struggled trying to learn to play "Giant Steps" (especially at mm=251), but here is a unique way to appreciate Coltrane's genius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kotK9FNEYU

Get out your tenor (or clarinet) and play along at the improv.

...GBK

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Re: Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

Author: joeyscl
Date: 2007-03-27 04:35

GBK... perhaps you should post this in the Saxaphone section instead :P

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Re: Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

Author: John Morton
Date: 2007-03-27 04:49

And here's another way: http://www.michalevy.com/gs_download.html

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Re: Coltrane's

Author: C2thew
Date: 2007-03-27 05:31

MAdddd skills to whoever put this together. =) and of course to coltrane for doing what he does best. i love the part where it says piano solo 14 measures. then says continued for 48.... hilarious

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Re: Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

Author: Megan
Date: 2007-03-27 13:57

I think I would throw up trying to follow that.

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Re: Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2007-03-27 14:11

Was that Django, resurrected, and doing the guitar continuo licks behind the 14 + 48 piano solo?

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Re: Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

Author: robertgh
Date: 2007-03-27 14:23

Whoa! [whoa]

[whoa]

I think I need a second cup of coffee! Very cool links indeed!

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Re: Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

Author: Alseg
Date: 2007-03-27 15:58

That graphic by Levy would make good screen saver

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Re: Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

Author: Bennett ★2017
Date: 2007-03-27 16:00

Here it is on 'paper'

http://www.lucaspickford.com/transgs.htm

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Re: Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2007-03-27 17:15

If you want to get your sax chops warmed up for "Giant Steps", start off with the 1930s equivalent, "Cherokee" (same breakneck tempo).

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Re: Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2007-03-27 17:21

Or "Flight of the Bumblebee". Heck, if a tuba player can play that at the noted tempo, then it should be a piece of cake on a clarinet -- even a contra, maybe! Eu

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Re: Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

Author: Gregory Smith ★2017
Date: 2007-03-28 05:13

Or, more amusing yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjONQNUU8Fg

Gregory Smith

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Re: Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

Author: joeyscl
Date: 2007-03-28 06:10

WHAO WICKED!

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Re: Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2007-03-28 12:27

Wow! And that guy's got boney fingers, too!

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Re: Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2007-03-28 17:06

Gregory,

I didn't think symphony players were this funny.

But I'd heard Larry Combs play sax when we were both students at Interlochen many moons ago; I'm sure he could cut it at this tempo even today.

HRL

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Re: Coltrane's

Author: Gregory Smith ★2017
Date: 2007-03-28 19:28

Now at 350 to the quarter....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7VJMGy3P4w&mode=related&search=

Gregory Smith

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