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PART 4

Academic but still might be interesting to anyone studying Giant Steps.

Doc Chittum is a very loved faculty member at Uarts. He does a lecture each year where he ties Giant Steps all the way back to Mozart. The lecture is pretty amazing. This is a 4 part excerpt from the lecture. In the lecture he hands out music and shows this lineage that's really incredible!

Here's another lick for January. It's in 2 parts. The lick is attached to each part as a pdf and I play it. I would advise transcribing the lick yourself first and then checking the music.

I usually don't even put the music up but this lick is a little more involved.

Here's a great clip from the 2010 workshop in Delaware. I thought it would be interesting to some of you guys.

I was working on the tune Conception by George Shearing and I had some thoughts I figured I'd pass along. I have an etude and chord study coming also.