Giant steps — John Coltrane

From parker_b%[email protected] Fri Jul 30 15:36:22 CDT 1993 Received: from animal-farm.nevada.edu by redrock.nevada.edu (5.65c/M1.4) with SMTP id <AA05124>; Fri, 30 Jul 1993 13:38:26 -0700 Received: from FEDEX.MSFC.NASA.GOV by animal-farm.nevada.edu id <[email protected]>; Fri, 30 Jul 1993 13:38:24 -0700 Received: from aplvax.span by Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov with VMSmail ; Fri, 30 Jul 93 15:36:22 CDT Date: Fri, 30 Jul 93 15:36:22 CDT From: parker_b%[email protected] Message-Id: <[email protected]> Subject: TAB: Giant Steps by John Coltrane To: [email protected], [email protected] X-St-Vmsmail-To: @$69$DUA0:[ALS.GRAPHICS7]DLIST2.TXT

Here's a chord-melody arrangement of the head to ``Giant Steps'' By John Coltrane. Most of the chord voicings have been opened to Mostly fourth, tritone, and fifth intervals (so-called ``quartal Harmony''), giving a very nice ambiguous sound. These voicings are Easy to finger on the guitar and sound good. I give the chord names In two forms: a name for a simple ``closed'' voicing, (top) and a name For the more open or extended voicing (bottom).

Giant Steps by John Coltrane Harm. by Bo Parker (parker_b%[email protected])

B6/9 D6/9 Gmaj7 Bb13 Eb6/9 Am9 D6/9

G6/9 Bb6/9 Ebmaj7 F#13 B6/9 Fm9 Bb9

Eb6/9 Am9 D6/9 G6/9 C#m9 F#9 B6/9

Fm9 Bb13b9 Eb6/9 C#m11 F#13 repeat from beginning

To tie in with the discussion of picking technique, I pick these as Block chords using either all four fingers or the first three fingers (no thumb, no arpeggiation). When I pick stuff like this, I do not Anchor my right hand at all, and I play over the sound hole. I can't Really solo over these changes(!), but it's fun just to play the head.

Enjoy

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GIANT STEPS (John Coltrane): melody chords to "Head" chorus

--guitar arrangement: tcg, 1987 --4/4 // BM // Allegro (pretty quick) --head so "jagged" and wide in its range, melody at times had to be transposed up/down an octave. . . . --fingerstyle or pick-&-3-fingers easiest; plectrum strums'll work if yu' deaden "x" strings with sides of adjacent fingers. . . . --note durations: / quarter note /- eighth note /-. dotted eighth /= sixteenth note /_/_/_/ tied notes

Hey, _I_ Understand It!--I Think. . . .

BM7 D7 GM7 Bb[7/]6 Eb[M7] Am9 D9 x_x___ x____x _x__xx x__oxx _x__xx xx____ xx____ / / / /-. /=_/_/ / /

GM7 Bb7/6 EbM7 F#7/6 BM7 Fm9 Bb7 x_x___ xx____ x____x x____x x_x___ x____x x____x ||||o| ||||o| ||o|o| |o||o| ||||o| |o|oo| |o|||| / / / /-. /=_/_/ / /-.

EbM7 Am9 D9 GM7 C#m9 F#7/6 x_x___ xx____ xx____ x_x___ x____x x____x /=_/_/ / /-. /=_/_/ / /-.

BM7 Fm9 Bb7/6 EbM7 F#7/6 x_x___ x____x xx____ x_x___ x____x ||||o| |o|oo| |o||o| ||||o| ||||o| /=_/_/ / /-. /=_/_/ / /

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