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Now, on to today's episode.

Four.

Four. Seven.

Seven. 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 going to 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. Let's do this thing. What's up, Brandy from Learned Jazz Standards?

What musicians just like you learn to play jazz all while shortening the learning curve, no matter what instrument you play. Welcome to another quick win episode of the podcast. By the way, we have a video version of this podcast over at LearnJazzstandards.com. We'll leave a link in the show notes today for you to check out if you would like to do that. We've also talked about

Giant Steps on this podcast before, but I wanted to do an episode that really kind of deep

dived a bit and made it a little bit clear what the harmonic chords analysis to Giant Steps is.

So let's do this thing. So before we dive into the analysis of Giant Steps, it's important

that you make sure you understand

the melody very fully and very completely and how the melody relates to the chords themselves.

This will set you up for a massive advantage with learning giant steps or any other jazz standard.

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