Giant Steps...But It's DIATONIC (with Dave Pollack)

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  • Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
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    In this week's lesson I take the infamous Giant Steps and make it, easier! By making a few changes to Giant Steps, I make it easier to play.
    Dave Pollack's links:
    UA-cam: / @davepollack
    Website: davepollack.com
    🎬 Improvisation Playlist
    • Improvising
    Chapters
    00:00 Intro & Original
    00:35 Simplifying Giant Steps
    01:14 Playing The New Version
    03:25 Asking a New York Jazz Saxophonist...
    04:00 #makegiantstepseasier
    04:08 Playing It Together
    04:49 Dave Pollack alto solo
    5:34 Jamie tenor solo
    07:02 Thanks to Dave
    08:02 Before You Go...
    08:09 End Music & Bloopers
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  • @GetYourSaxTogether
    @GetYourSaxTogether  2 місяці тому +5

    Grab your free diatonic giant steps cheat sheet PDF here🎷 www.getyoursaxtogether.com/giant

  • @DavePollack
    @DavePollack 2 місяці тому +13

    Thanks so much for having me on this Jamie!! I had a blast with it 🙏

    • @GetYourSaxTogether
      @GetYourSaxTogether  2 місяці тому +1

      The pleasure was all mine. Great playing as always bro. 😎

    • @iffa70
      @iffa70 2 місяці тому +2

      Both my favourite sax players on UA-cam playing amazingly together!! Bravo to you both!!👏👏👏👏👏

  • @shirleyfrancis4515
    @shirleyfrancis4515 2 місяці тому +6

    It's not the same in a different key. It's an entirely different piece of music you've just played, but played brilliantly by you and as usual.

  • @coreychandler2016
    @coreychandler2016 2 місяці тому +1

    This was possibly the most burning intro I have ever heard. 😮

  • @pavelpatsenkov
    @pavelpatsenkov 2 місяці тому +2

    Thanks Mr Anderson. Very interesting improvisation by you and Mr Pollack.

  • @maja4236
    @maja4236 Місяць тому +1

    it is brilliant, love it, you both sound incredible together

  • @henrychess3
    @henrychess3 2 місяці тому +1

    The head is cursed, the solos are great 😍🤣

  • @andrewwanless9288
    @andrewwanless9288 2 місяці тому +2

    This is awesome. My two favourite sax teachers and all round geniuses! Thanks guys. Could listen to this all day. ❤

  • @couchphotography8861
    @couchphotography8861 2 місяці тому +1

    Oh this is really good, especially with the two saxes playing back and forth...love it!

  • @ellaf1841
    @ellaf1841 2 місяці тому +1

    Outstanding! So cool to hear both saxes together 👏👏🌷

  • @TechLiteDesigns
    @TechLiteDesigns 2 місяці тому +1

    You guys are unbelievable! Your duet brought a smile to my face - first one today! Thank you.

  • @Dr.RolyndDellaSylvan
    @Dr.RolyndDellaSylvan 2 місяці тому +2

    @GetYourSaxTogether
    @DavePollack
    Jerry Bergonzi, with whom I studied, used to do similar fun/funny reharmonizations including, “A Train” in C but the 2nd chord changed to C maj9 with melody returning back to scale degree natural 5 on the 2nd chord (!)… we would laugh so hard !
    Another is, “A Train” in C (original melody notes) but the 2nd chord is E maj9#11 or E 9#11 hahaha 😝
    **Thank you Mr Anderson & Mr Pollack for another great video and insights.
    I can’t wait to start my late-in-life sax journey with you; I didn’t study sax with Bergonzi (decades ago) I was working on several graduate degrees at NewEngCnsrvtry in composition and performance (not sax).
    hug 🫂
    Dr D

  • @lyntedrockley7295
    @lyntedrockley7295 2 місяці тому +2

    There Will Never Be Another Giant.
    Great lesson thanks.

    • @Ot_Tokn
      @Ot_Tokn 2 місяці тому

      There will never be another step

    • @lrsmth06
      @lrsmth06 2 місяці тому

      Yeah the chord progression totally sounds like There Will Never Be Another You (especially at bar 9 of the form)

    • @GetYourSaxTogether
      @GetYourSaxTogether  2 місяці тому

      🙏🏻

  • @TedDobieski-wj7pu
    @TedDobieski-wj7pu 2 місяці тому +3

    You should call this version BABY STEPS!

  • @drenngur
    @drenngur 2 місяці тому +1

    Totally awesome, you two! You’re both a constant inspiration

  • @rickbennettartmusicvideo7720
    @rickbennettartmusicvideo7720 2 місяці тому +1

    Hilarious but also sounds very cool.

  • @samuelelite123
    @samuelelite123 2 місяці тому +1

    BEAST! I subscribed

  • @a.j.nicoll477
    @a.j.nicoll477 2 місяці тому +1

    Baby Steps to Giant Steps

  • @paulgaspard7133
    @paulgaspard7133 2 місяці тому +1

    Really enjoyed that !

  • @emscots2780
    @emscots2780 2 місяці тому +1

    Love this 😊 Another favourite online teacher

  • @Chris-zc8jg
    @Chris-zc8jg 2 місяці тому +2

    Damn, your Tenor sounds lit!

  • @davidm.wilmington5325
    @davidm.wilmington5325 2 місяці тому +1

    Cool idea and fun execution. (Plus, nice little quote of "Pent-up House"!)

  • @suzannewainwright9344
    @suzannewainwright9344 2 місяці тому +1

    You are my hero!

  • @porpentosa
    @porpentosa 2 місяці тому +3

    I really enjoyed listening to two excellent saxophonists playing a nice tune... But it is 0% Giant Steps.

  • @samuelbrown434
    @samuelbrown434 2 місяці тому +1

    Hahaha taking this to the jam sessions!

  • @glennmansfield3900
    @glennmansfield3900 2 місяці тому

    Gents - live joint gig... London. Please and thank you.

  • @bar8393gm
    @bar8393gm 2 місяці тому +1

    So great! How about #MakeCherokeeABallad? 😂

  • @jazzman_10
    @jazzman_10 2 місяці тому +1

    Loved it! I´ve heard a passage of Sonny Rollins solo on Tenor Madness on the first impro you made just by yourself... I wish I could have that quick mind and fingers to be able to do that!
    I also have to say that I really dig your way of playing, really bluesy to my ears...

  • @beckyn9338
    @beckyn9338 2 місяці тому +1

    Jamie, brilliant little arrangement. Thinking about that Caravan arrangement. You should do more arranging! (Maybe you do and we just don’t hear it!) Anyway great stuff. Not really Giant Steps anymore, but it is Happy Steps! 😊😊😊

  • @lyntedrockley7295
    @lyntedrockley7295 2 місяці тому +2

    Its always struck me as curious that the melody of GS is simply (mostly) a descending major 7th arpeggio which minors. Yet if you try to play over that it never works.

  • @robstevens9590
    @robstevens9590 2 місяці тому +1

    Great collaboration! My favorite sax teachers! Nice tune. Still recognizable as "Giant Steps", but a bit more "beboppy" and with an almost singable melody! It just needs a good text. But it doesn't sound very Coltrane-like.

  • @bobpremecz5429
    @bobpremecz5429 2 місяці тому +1

    #makeGiantStepsEasier - I am ready to take this new Giant step! That arrangement was spot on, Jamie! Glad to hear you did another co-op video with another great UA-cam sax mentor. I miss them! Hope others follow suit. FYI - You left about a minute of blank space at the end. "They'll tell you I'm insane - But I've got a blank space, baby - And I'll write your name(s)" (thanks Taylor Swift).

    • @GetYourSaxTogether
      @GetYourSaxTogether  2 місяці тому

      Dang!! I’ll try and mend the end. Thanks for pointing it out. 👍🏻

  • @stack80
    @stack80 2 місяці тому +1

    So much fun!! You never disappoint.
    When can we find the backing track for this?

    • @GetYourSaxTogether
      @GetYourSaxTogether  2 місяці тому +1

      Tag me in the inner circle and I’ll chuck it up. 👍🏻

    • @stack80
      @stack80 2 місяці тому

      @@GetYourSaxTogether Thank you, I will do that right away

  • @noosweat7022
    @noosweat7022 2 місяці тому +1

    I'm calling this; The Dave & Jamie's SMOOTH JAZZ GIANT STEPS Version. This was awesome playing and great for cruising in the ride. When is the CD coming out? :)

    • @GetYourSaxTogether
      @GetYourSaxTogether  2 місяці тому

      Can’t see the smooth jazz connection?! But whatever, I’ll take it! 🤣

    • @noosweat7022
      @noosweat7022 2 місяці тому

      You and Dave are the “Smooth” in the Jazz. 👀🎼🎷🎶 Again, that was some awesome playing.

  • @ronhowe5933
    @ronhowe5933 2 місяці тому +1

    🙏

  • @davidprince1590
    @davidprince1590 2 місяці тому +1

    You and Dave sound great as always, but I don't understand why you changed the melody. That makes it a different song. At that tempo there's no problem playing right melody - even in B!

    • @GetYourSaxTogether
      @GetYourSaxTogether  2 місяці тому

      Yeah, I think you kinda missed the concept of this video? 🤣

    • @davidprince1590
      @davidprince1590 2 місяці тому

      @@GetYourSaxTogether Not really. I fully understand diatonic, but the emphasis seemed to be that Giant Steps is too hard at the John Coltrane speed and in the key of B. Simply slowing it down takes care of that. Changing the key and/or the tempo doesn't change the essence of the song.
      "In this week's lesson I take the infamous Giant Steps and make it, easier!" - Changing the melody makes it a different song. It doesn't make playing Giant Steps easier because you're no longer playing Giant Steps.
      Just my opinion...

  • @blindcanseemusic
    @blindcanseemusic 2 місяці тому +1

    any hints on that beautiful altissimo growl at about 20 seconds?

    • @GetYourSaxTogether
      @GetYourSaxTogether  2 місяці тому

      I’ve got an altissimo video. Go and find that. 👍🏻

  • @paddylandreville8501
    @paddylandreville8501 2 місяці тому +1

    Nice work, but I heard Dave P. play Giant Steps at 400 bpm. Isn't that impressive?

  • @oluwaliblue8684
    @oluwaliblue8684 2 місяці тому +1

    A song by any other name...

  • @derek_williams
    @derek_williams 2 місяці тому +1

    Maybe call it Baby Steps?

  • @ronrobbins2737
    @ronrobbins2737 2 місяці тому +1

    You guys ARE kidding, right?

    • @GetYourSaxTogether
      @GetYourSaxTogether  2 місяці тому

      Of course.

    • @ronrobbins2737
      @ronrobbins2737 2 місяці тому

      @@GetYourSaxTogether I apologetically bow to the new recognized masters of sarcasm, gentlemen!

  • @lrsmth06
    @lrsmth06 2 місяці тому +1

    Coltrane must be rolling around in his grave

    • @GetYourSaxTogether
      @GetYourSaxTogether  2 місяці тому

      I think he’d appreciate the humour actually. Plus, I’m sure he’d be flattered that people are still talking about his music 65 years later!

  • @cheknfaks
    @cheknfaks 2 місяці тому +1

    Did I get here a bit early? It's only 2am where I'm at.. and I'm also making 'Giant Steps' bit easier... for the late night snack fridge in the dark. Sounds awesome Jamie & Dave!🥨🥯🍗🧀🍿

    • @GetYourSaxTogether
      @GetYourSaxTogether  2 місяці тому +1

      Ha! Enjoy. Food and video.

    • @cheknfaks
      @cheknfaks 2 місяці тому

      @@GetYourSaxTogether Absolutely, Its my late night Diet-tonic

  • @lottierose8668
    @lottierose8668 2 місяці тому +1

    its now not giant steps

  • @samuelelite123
    @samuelelite123 2 місяці тому +1

    You're a real player dude 💪🏻 I play alto.