Giant Steps!!!

[dets1]

hold on to your seat. this is smokin'!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4HPqJyBMrU

[derekd]

A bit too busy or frantic for me. Here is my idea of a good interpretation of GS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rX6gbm1leY

[zenguitarguy]

hold on to your seat. this is smokin'!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4HPqJyBMrU

Wow!!

ok this is my favorite guy palying now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_2Jmcig-X4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rREB0J_vUZ0

:dude:jo:dude:jo:dude:jo:AOK:AOK:AOK

[dets1]

Wow!!

ok this is my favorite guy palying now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_2Jmcig-X4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rREB0J_vUZ0

:dude:jo:dude:jo:dude:jo:AOK:AOK:AOK
whoa!!! i always thought gonzalo was a little too much, but the playing on this vid is just killer. i'd almost call it "jazz shred". perhaps we've witnessed a new category of music!!!

[scottl]

I love Calderazzo.... His time feel is the bomb.... Piano at 3:46

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMuTvV2CQY8

[jgyn]

This guy blows them all away:

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

[shngn7]

That was nuts...

[realityczech]

Truly giant steps.
Word is - done in one take.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZRPM1Fn-Aw

[dets1]

This guy blows them all away:

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

:rotflmao:rotflmao
great chops, but i'm not feeling any emotion.

[musicman1]

There are many levels and varieties of emotion...these guys are "hard bop" masters...
No different from Petrucci or Govan or McLaughlin or DiMeola.

Please dont confuse chops w/lack of emotion

[dets1]

There are many levels and varieties of emotion...these guys are "hard bop" masters...
No different from Petrucci or Govan or McLaughlin or DiMeola.

Please dont confuse chops w/lack of emotion
please don't confuse the vid i quoted as the same one i put in the OP.

[musicman1]

dets1, my bad...sorry. I re-read your post and just noticed that you quoted in regard to a different video. Im going to check that one out myself.

[musicman1]

Ok I watched it...dets1 is right! LOL! I wonder if that is legit or a fake?

[aeolian]

Gonzalo and Terrason are my favorite pianists these days. The feel and emotion they put into things gives life to music that often gets too clinical.

Also love Julio Barretto. Swings with that special latin feel in the breaks.

[fusion58]

How 'bout this guy? :AOK

http://www.scottjonesmusic.com/aufiles/strtaheadjazz/Track01.mp3

[dets1]

dets1, my bad...sorry. I re-read your post and just noticed that you quoted in regard to a different video. Im going to check that one out myself.
no problem. i figured you missed the "alternate" version. it appears real and if it is, somebody put a lot of time into that. it's pretty amusing.

[ssss]

hold on to your seat. this is smokin'!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4HPqJyBMrU


What!!! Only at about 180 bmp......???

Just kidding. Great players, but somehow I'm wondering why Giant Steps always seems to degenerate into a speed and chops contest.

[Brett Valentine]

Like this guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q9SmMAGeto "Don Nick Plays "Giant Steps" Jazz Guitar"

[Brett Valentine]

. . .ummm. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHf7JqUmcBE

[stekks]

I just love this version (starts at around 0:45):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiZP7dZ7Md8

[ToneGurus]

I've posted this a million times, and it still remains my favorite.

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

Mike

[aeolian]

Like this guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q9SmMAGeto "Don Nick Plays "Giant Steps" Jazz Guitar"
Ran into Don the other day and he told me they were working on a new video where he's going to step up the pace a bit. Still fooling around with which guitar he likes the sound and feel of but it should be out soon. He's reworked his picking technique a la GB (although not as severely twisted upwards in the wrist). Sounds really fluid and great tone to me. He wishes it were possible to lay into the guitar harder when he wants to with that technique, but I like the way he sounds with it.