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The most feared song in jazz, explained

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Vox Earworm explains why John Coltrane's Giant Steps is so hard to improvise over: it is fast and moves through three keys. Musicians Braxton Cook and Adam Neely walk the host through the underlying music theory.

Recommended as a well-produced, accessible explanation of Giant Steps and the harmonic ideas behind Coltrane's work.

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5 comments from Hacker News

@zzzeek2025 · in “John Coltrane's Tone Circle”

Nice site but we're at the point in "Show an In Depth Thing on Hacker News" where circles like these need to be presented with a live GUI that includes sound and colors as you spin the circles around to play different chords. towards my craving for instant gratification with sound and lights I found a well produced video by Vox on the subject: ▶ this video

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@ghostpepper2025 · in “John Coltrane's Tone Circle”

If you don’t have the time (or the musical background) for the full article, this short YouTube video touches on some of the same ideas in a much more condensed and accessible version: ▶ this video

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@elbelcho2024 · in “Miles Davis and the recording of Kind of Blue”

If you're looking for a comprehensible to mortals explanation of the genius that can be found in Jazz, watch this explainer on Coltrane's Giant Steps. ▶ this video

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@peteforde2023 · in “Jazz Is Freedom”

I highly recommend this Vox explainer on John Coltrane's "Giant Steps", for anyone interested in learning about the math behind one of Jazz' greatest innovations. ▶ this video

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