Yo, Adam.

Yes.

Check it.

Oh, you mean like...

Or maybe.

Or how about like...

Or how about like I'm at Matt a mess.

And I'm Peter Martin.

And you're listening to the You'll Hearer podcast.

Music advice coming at you. Coming at you emphatically today. Peter, we are dealing with giant steps finally. We are dealing with giant steps finally. I love this tune. This is an important tune. This is a tune that is part of the canon, as you like to say. It is part of the canon. And it's also a tune that sometimes the jazz police are on high alert for.

They are.

They're hovering around.

They're listening for it. Yeah. Listening for the for the baseline and stuff. But we're going to talk about some ideas, some hacks that will help you to navigate the changes, kind of conceptually get around practice. You got to practice this tune a lot. You got to learn the solo. You you don't have to learn the soul but that's a good one to start it's a great one and everybody

has to deal with this eventually so you might as well just bite the bullet and get to it and what makes

giant steps kind of tricky is the fact that it changes gosh darn keys so fast it goes through

in major thirds it starts in b and then goes immediately to g, then immediately to E flat. Yep. Right? And then does the same thing to G, then to E flat, and then to B. And we all have to figure out how to navigate these in a way that doesn't work with functional harmony. Like if you were just to be like, you know, it's not the same thing. It's a whole different way of thinking about things.

Yeah, that's the one.

And that sounds hip.

Yeah.

And the nice thing about it, though, is as you're working on this, you know, everything's

kind of relative.

So, like, you get to that E flat major, and because everything's moving so violently,

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