Dennis Cannizzo try to play John Coltrane´s Giant Steps

[renaudmaret]

it's a little boring but still... you're great and we understood you were just practicing.

I can't believe those fucks criticizing while they are unable to do anything of their lifes. (83WC for ex...)

[toto1980]

Thank you!

[pe1er1]

nice! got some potentiall there, just heard a nice run about 4.00 min in. keep it up

[UpskirtCobain]

I don,t play any instrument, so obviously I couldn't do any better, but that sounds nothing like Trane; no feeling, no groove... And if you just want to practice your technique, without paying attention to the latter, why do you film yourself?...

[83WC]

this is shit, your not feelin it.

[toto1980]

i dont want to feel something, i only want to check out the skales,chords etc.....thanx for your lovely comment dude...

[83WC]

your not welcome.

[curleysloth]

Work on some phrasing. You need to leave space, and punctuate phrases -- it can't all be one endless legato. As a saxophonist you know this from the beginning, because if a saxophonist played like that he'd die. Maybe try practicing G.S. as a ballad or slow waltz, and give up the Aebersold -- it will mess you up in the long run. The sooner you get rid of that stuff, the better.

[enigma373]

work on the groove, trane swings like a mutha on this.

[linkan2]

that is shit

[olemix]

yeah!!!

AWESOME!!!

[mtoshima]

amazing !

[bidibuloux]

i love your sound, what are your picks and amps?

[jazzis779]

you soung like a young Allan Holdsworth

[halmunby]

After a minute ot two it does start to sound like an arpeggiator. I'm personally a killer for motifs and agree with the comments about melody and phrasing. Great work on the scales and changes though, all the notes were there with sizzling speed.

Just as an aside to everybody, giant steps works amazingly well as an up-bossa about 135bpm. My teacher Luis D'Agostino and Pete Oxley do a great version on their album 'the play of light'.

[adamdakin]

Check out Gregg Howe's version of this. It's stunning and I think is what this guy is trying to acheive. This needs more in the way of phrasing and question and answer sections. I offer my criticisms as a listener. No I could'nt do better.

[adamdakin]

Check out Gregg Howe's version of this. It's stunning.

[claryscat]

You are getting there. Can you play the changes with out the clik & not get lost? I hear you thinking all the way.

Get a cleaner tone? Does the effect or whatever let you have sustain so you can hide when your lines don't resolve. The listener gets bored fast if the phrases don't work melodicaly and metrically. You run before you can walk. Can you play straight uninterupted quarter or eight notes having the phrases make sense. I never hear the top as one.

[andrefusion]

VAI ESTUDAR PORRA...

[mctroublepants]

This is actually one of the best tunes to learn for the purpose of committing to memory the major scale and it's modes. 3 key changes, and a complimentary melody.

Yeah, this guys's definitely just arpeggiating modes, and it does lack a certain "lyrical" quality, but once you know you have aquired a suitable amount of "left-brain" music theory knowledge, you can really begin to develop a more lyrical style.

Congrats on knowing your fingerboard.

Now get to work...  :)

[holladayinnn]

It's alright, you can play over the changes pretty well, although it all sounds exactly the same after a while beacuse it is, and you should swing a little bit when playing a swing tune.

[Komisio]

Kind of a robot-feel... Little passion in your playing and a lot of reused guitar-techniques (pull-off, hammer-on and that's about it)

[ectomy1235]

your time is very bad but this is a very difficult piece to try to improvise with, also you need to give some space in your solos, ahhh ugly sound!!!

[jvciem]

These guys are jealous of you

Listen you are doing great 2things

* All you have to do is go to the WIZARD

and ask for some passion.

Bacause all those notes cannot have exactly the same dynamic value ..or then you would just be playing alot of notes.

Be more deliberate with the very relevent tones!

Make sure you know the rhythm as well as lead

and tell all the critics to Kiss Your Ass

Johnny Guitar Carson

[cesarodrigues1]

this is very average.

[GuitarArt]

Very good. I would like that you saw my video.Regards.

[Finkployd2112]

The changes are so fast that Trane usually just arpeggiated the chord or ran up and down the scales in patterns like 1-2-3-5.

[kostianix]

der dennis wie er leibt und lebt:)

hab auch n übevideo gemacht - schaumalrein!

cu - kostia

[butterwings]

ugh..typical ex-metal head turned jazz musician. why dont guitar players feel they need to learn standard jazz vocabulary??? anyone can run scales... learn a bird solo, a wes solo. and the reason your time is off is because your louder than the band in the box.

[IMDominican]

wow stfu? just let him play u fhag

[4ndreasH]

That's the thing 'bout jazz. There is no standard vocabulary! Do you think Bird studied "standard vocabulary"!? Ofcourse it's useful to learn some Parker or some Montgomery. But if this dude want to run scales, let him. Don't blame him for having fun.

[superunknown373]

Um, yes, as a matter of fact Bird did study standard vocabulary and his playing is soaked in it. Bird listened to all the masters that came before him and transcribed every Lester Young solo he could lay his hands on.

You can always tell the players who actually know the vocabulary and the ones who don't. This one doesn't. Terrific technique and he really knows his scales but it's got no soul.

[valhalla666]

Very good..

[someguyrandomguy21]

You've obviously been working very hard on those changes. I have a couple suggestions for ya. Right now your solo sounds very "patterny" and there really isn't any line for the listener to follow. try limiting yourself - for example. Try playing a chorus of only whole notes (think voice leading), then half notes, etc. Then mix them up. Also, get it at a slower tempo first. I think this will open up some more melodic ideas to you.

[Tootsy86]

wise words.

[PhuckHue]

not bad, sounds like Allan Holdsworth

[Extracelestial]

Go back to the ear factory and get some new ones!

[cj1982]

no way... that was too good. if you can play fusion style on this, i can only imagine how good it would sound if you had played it on a jazzbox. are you in school for this? great work man, keep it up!