Giant Steps Licks and Ideas (Jazz Guitar Lesson 20)

[@dennismaks8878]

"You might say: i don't wanna sound like Coltrane and then i would say: don't worry" 👍😊 Thanks for the great lessons.

[@profkeenan]

That might be the best comment in Jazz history! Ha!

[@SingliuEuroMusicaLab]

😂😂😂

[@arthurfranca5516]

I felt that😂😂

[@randiseriss]

Man that sounds so good you are my favourite player and teacher

[@garciagrcia]

This video is a jewel

[@SeanAustinLewis]

Nice Metheny shirt!

[@Mikkokosmos]

Seán Austin Lewis thanks for noticing. .need wider stripes tho! 😃

[@atlantaguitar9689]

I remember a student also saying “I don’t want to sound too jazzy” and I was like “uh I don’t think you have to worry about that”.

[@BigBlackBe4r]

Wow super video dude and GREAT playing! This is very helpful, gratitude gratitude gratitude

[@symalick4620]

Mille mercis vous êtes fantastique

[@miochemannetje7801]

Fascinating rhythm!

[@pallhe]

Sounds nice and musical so it actually makes me want to learn the song.

[@deacontheseer4804]

I love this song .Great teaching

[@McMinnManiac]

This is the direction of guitar and music now in 2019. flowing lines, and loops over progressions . Great video

[@isyamswardydaud8674]

great lesson...very clear picture of understanding the way we compose our lines over this canges

[@estebanvenegas89]

I finally understood the pattern usage over the chord changes! Thank you so much i really aprecciate

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

Exercise 2 sounds so sweet.

[@helter2K10]

Excellent video - really useful suggestions, clearly explained and demonstrated - love the guitar too - keep posting

[@Mikkokosmos]

Thank you! :D

[@theScienceLabLive]

Wow. Fantastic lesson. Now just gotta put in the practice time!!!

[@Hi-xs7wm]

Beautiful lesson

[@federico7748]

Best guitar teacher on yt. Thank you

[@Mikkokosmos]

Wow thank you 😀

[@mikebynes3720]

nice way of breaking this tune down, in a basic simple way👍👍

[@bsorryrthatsit7055]

Terrific lesson!

[@Mikkokosmos]

Thank you. A sequel to this lesson is coming up tomorrow 😎

[@stalbrmusic498]

Very inspiring and helpful even as piano player👍

[@Mikkokosmos]

stalbr music that's great! 😀

[@Xtian_Kpan]

great lesson, very useful

[@Mikkokosmos]

Thank you! :D

[@temp289]

You are a fine teacher. Also clearly you have invested a great amount of time practicing your craft. Wonderful video. Good luck in the future. John Paiva (an old guitarist)

[@Mikkokosmos]

Thank you! Glad you like it :D

[@eternalrainbow-cj3iu]

Okay I haven't seen this one for a while, I just had recently a guitar lesson with the fifth house, now in a month time or something one again, after seeing your lesson again, I liked your idea's, going to incorporate them...

[@rogerball6265]

Love your ideas thanks for sharing

[@OlemirCandido]

Excelent video. Thank you so much.

[@Mikkokosmos]

Olemir Candido thank you! 😃😃😃

[@SamiGundogdu]

Thank you very very much. It is best 'to the point lesson' I've ever seen. I also bought J.Bergonzi's book. Superb! I know it is time consuming but please keep posting.

[@Mikkokosmos]

wow thank you! I will make more lessons for sure. Have some ideas coming up :)

[@merttalay9702]

Ooo hocam sizde buralara geldiniz nasılsınız?

[@robertomacheda592]

Amazing lesson

[@elementallobsterx]

Dude you sound great.

[@patocariqueo6553]

great video, thanks!

[@Eflatmajor7sharp11]

Masterful. Thank you.

[@chumbo]

Definitely one of the better Giant Steps lessons I've come across on youtube, thanks! :-)

[@Mikkokosmos]

Thanks. Glad you like it :)

[@paulporto1318]

Great lesson! Thank you!

[@clarkewi]

Sounds awesome I could listen to that riff all day.

[@danielmugnaini5735]

EXCELLENT. Really helpful.

[@MrMartinsax]

Excelente!!!! Thank you

[@stasmaksimov9531]

Nice lesson! Really! 👍

[@blacklonggadogg]

Thank you, Mikko.

[@SACHMUSIC]

Excelent Mikko Thank you!

[@travelingman9763]

great teacher!

[@frankiecalabro2617]

Love your playing style and tone, Great lessons!

[@carlopelusomusic]

very useful

[@aryzBulo]

great

[@Gusrikh1]

Fabulous..

[@gandhiwibisono3450]

Thank you Sir, for all ur advice.. I use Jerry Bergonzi's books too, ..

[@guitarjamguy6200]

This is awesome - great lines and clarity of presentation - thanks!

[@peti802]

Tremendous lesson. Thanks

[@NumHeavymetallic]

Great guitar sound !

[@Mikkokosmos]

Thank you :)

[@Chilajuana]

Very informative tutorial!!!!!! Thanks....

[@Mikkokosmos]

Jeff Sprankle thank you 😁

[@straygeraniums1]

Great lesson. Great tone. Thanks so much for putting this out there!

[@Mikkokosmos]

Andrew Hughes thanks 😃

[@Paolo2977]

Good ideas!

[@TONIKOBLER]

Very good excelente i wish haver a classe and books

[@evinobrien]

Thank you!

[@marcelopfeil5171]

Thanks.

[@nicolaseverino]

Great Video!

[@esequielbass]

wow excelent explicatiion!

[@pascalteillet6005]

thanks ...

[@wobamusic]

Hey Mikko, thanx for that great content. It washes away the fear as you titeld it from the holy grail ;-) Just recently discovered your channel and I'm happy that I found it. Kind regards from Germany

[@DjangoThunders]

Yeah....dig it.

[@clarencecovington5702]

Great lesson! Thanks for sharing these tips! I found them to be most helpful in demystifying an approach to improvising over Giant Steps! keep up the good work. Oh, and by the way, I wouldn't mind sounding like Coltrane. After all he was truly great and Original!

[@miomimomiro]

Kiitti tästä! 👏🏼

[@DJDJ-zm6tr]

I would love if you made a CD of your version of Giant Steps w Alternate takes. I would be the first to buy it!

[@paulomotaofficial7838]

Show!!!

[@Mikkokosmos]

show what? 😄 What does that mean?

[@tojorabemananjara351]

Fucking awesome man! Thank you for sharing!

[@Mikkokosmos]

Glad you like it 😀

[@OrangePony75]

You may not be a «scholar», but this was a great lesson! Subscribed.

[@GilWandered]

what are the chords at 1:31 ? so clean

[@zlatkodraskovic5532]

Nice flow…

[@DJDJ-zm6tr]

Excellent Lesson. But what is the Link for the Backing Track Music so I can practice?

[@Mikkokosmos]

Thank you 😊 I don't remember I made this years ago 🙄 but it was on KZbin so if you search for Giant Steps playalong it should come up. 👍

[@DJDJ-zm6tr]

@@Mikkokosmos Thank you

[@nikosterzakis1089]

bravooooooo

[@foxybrown2]

major pentatonic scale over the major chords

[@lekinguitarrista8445]

Your playing is great. How do you recommend this guitar?

[@paulporto1318]

Don’t worry indeed! 😅

[@zebfernandez]

Hi Mikko, the chart was blocking your hand when playing the chords. How do you voice the rhythm changes?

[@bilanggoboy]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️‼️

[@michaeliadonisi1616]

Just found your lessons recently. Thank you for posting awesome lessons. Good stuff-playing is great. Great tone too. What make of guitar is this? Is it a Godin?

[@limaaudioprojects112]

🎶😎👍

[@XgamersXdimensions]

Great lesson! Do you ever do anything where you simplify the chord progression by ignoring some of the changes and instead just focusing on the melody?

[@Mikkokosmos]

woow you must be psychic my next video that I already uploaded for tomorrow is on this topic! :-O

[@aronhidman1]

That 1-2-3-5 pattern works. BUT... you end up (almost) always doubling the bass line every time you change chords. Parallel octaves is sometimes an annoying sound. Not saying it doesn't work: just something to be aware of.

[@blueeyedsoulman]

Great lesson! Could you tell me what Godin model you use and if there was an amplifier and what model that was? Curious about the pick guage as well.

[@Mikkokosmos]

Thanks. I use a Godin Multiac Grand Concert. Think I play through a Tanglewood amp there. I use pretty heavy picks usually. It varies.

[@RobRijnbout]

Great and useful patterns....not easy however;to apply those esp at a fast tempo.....Need to get used to those 'uncommon' changes first..

[@Mikkokosmos]

Rob Rijnbout I made a more recent lesson on how to get used to the changes. The lesson is called "seven steps to giant steps" 🤓😃

[@RobRijnbout]

Hi,okay Mikko thnks! I surely will check it out....Right now I'am playing the tune as a bossa,...wrote my own melody over it..medium speed..more time to think...but this changes the character completely,of course Greets!

[@giovai1959]

Grande,Mikko,dove posso trovare lo stesso libro con intavolatura?grazie mille.☺️

[@pawo161]

neve prosciutto!

[@regaling]

Love the sound of your guitar. Which model is it?

[@Mikkokosmos]

Godin Multiac Grand Concert SA

[@Shuzies]

Hot....thanks for your time......ron

[@lupatta]

Great Job :-) What amplification system do you use ?

[@Mikkokosmos]

I'm playing through a Tanglewood acoustic guitar amp

[@PauliReinert]

8:44 wow was that on purpose, to speak the melody? “If you play a major 7...”

[@Mikkokosmos]

haha I have never noticed that before 😀👍

[@joaquin8637]

Mikko Hilden but it's giant steps meme

[@architgupta4433]

2:23 why did you call it a 9th and not a 2nd?

[@Mikkokosmos]

It's the 2nd degree of the scale, 9th degree if you think of it as a chord extension. Stacking thirds. Sorry for making it confusing 👀

[@architgupta4433]

Mikko Hilden ahhhh that makes more sense! Thanks for the reply👍🏽

[@architgupta4433]

Sweep Phreak I was rather asking why he called it a 9th because the note was only a whole step above tonic. But he explained it better and I understand

[@Marcus538]

"because its fast " , sorry if you listen to any good music , jazz or not , you can have a fast rythym play melody slowly , which is what the best musicians do , not churn out notes keeping up . Then youll not have a problem Coltrane does it, Miles davis , Billy cobhams lot etc etc basic timing which is what jazz is about

[@Mikkokosmos]

Thisis not a lesson on how to play fast tempos. I haven't done one on that topic so far. This is a lesson on how to get through the changes of Giant Steps. Of course you don't have to play eight notes all the time, but you wan't the option of doing that. My point is that if you can't play any eight notes lines over this tune it's going to be a problem, right? Playing slower and even hearing the fast tempo as a slower tempo is a great technique that many players use, I would say that Louis Armstrong was the master of that.

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

Are all the licks over the same harmony? After the first one you stopped showing the harmony.

[@Mikkokosmos]

Yes the the chords of the tune Giant Steps!?

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

Sorry Mikko we misunderstood each other. I mean is exercise two played over G Bb7 Eb F#7? (bar 5 of Giant Steps) Or are all the the licks played over B D7 G Bb7?

[@Mikkokosmos]

ah I see! :D yes the first section of the tune; B D7 etc

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

Ok that makes things simple then you transpose it all over the rest of the tune I guess.

[@Mikkokosmos]

yes exactly that's the idea :D

[@sp4gsus]

Why would you say root nine third and not root second third.

[@Mikkokosmos]

sam powell that's how I think of (and been taught) chord tones and extensions: if we stack thirds we get root third fifth seventh ninth eleven and thirteen

[@sp4gsus]

Mikko Hilden right but in a melodic line of B, C#, D# I think it would be less confusing to a student to simply say root, second, third no? Using ninth to represent the C# a whole step away from the root confused me for a second because technically root then nine could jump the octave which might actually sound interesting before the third. There’s obviously endless variations. Anyway thanks for the video it opened up some ideas to me.

[@Mikkokosmos]

yeah you are probably right. I'm just used to think of chord tones rather than scales. Thank for the input! Mikko

[@samuelefaccincani7537]

El Papu Gomez can play the guitar very well!

[@urmero67]

awful footballer and annoying nickname.

[@joepalooka2145]

Hi Mikko---- with all due respect, really enjoy your great videos. But I am one of those people who "really hate" Giant Steps---- the most totally over-rated and boring tune in all of jazz music, as far as I am concerned. Yes it's extremely difficult and challenging, etc---- but so what? After you've heard it a few times, it gets kind of old. And if you are the kind of musician who can spend endless hours, playing it---- good for you. I'd rather listen to and play the blues, just as challenging and difficult to get right and always will be.

[@Mikkokosmos]

Totally legit opinion. Just wondering, why then are you watching this video? 😉

[@Donttalktomeifyoureabot]

I'm gay

[@rogelioa8674]

Thumbs down because of the poor audio. I can hear the chord progression in the background

[@eldridgechen3878]

Thank you for the great lesson!

[@song4night]

Great teacher!

[@horstlippitsch]

Awesome! Which kind of pick do you use? Dunlop Jazz 3?