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"Giant Steps" is a jazz recording by John Coltrane, on tenor saxophone, which is the first track on the album of the same name and is 4 m...
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"Giant Steps" is a jazz recording by John Coltrane, on tenor saxophone, which is the first track on the album of the same name and is 4 minutes and 49 seconds long. The composition is a milestone for jazz musicians' progress, given the difficulty of improvising its rapid progression of chord changes that progress through three keys (see Coltrane changes) shifted by major thirds, creating an augmented triad.
The saxophonist had previously used this technique on the LP Blue Train on the tunes Moment's Notice and Lazy Bird. Coltrane continued in this vein on a recording with Cannonball Adderley of the standard "Limehouse Blues," and on his original "Fifth House." He continued to use this approach on other tunes, such as "Countdown", based on the Miles Davis tune "Tune Up"; "26 2" based on Charlie Parker's "Confirmation"; and a reharmonization of the jazz standard "Body and Soul." Songs such as "Naima" and "Like Sonny" also show some harmonic similarity to "Giant Steps." Coltrane continued to employ similar concepts in his soloing during his more open and modal middle period. A Love Supreme features examples of lines based on "Giant Steps" cycles over modal vamps, to create a Polytonal effect (see modal jazz).
The progression continues to stimulate harmonic thinking in contemporary jazz. There are a number of different approaches to soloing on the song. While Coltrane favoured arpeggiation over the changes, other players have used different tricks and patterns to bring out the sound of the changes. The chord progression was later used by Freddie Hubbard as a basis for his composition "Dear John" (on Hubbard's 1991 album Bolivia). Covers have been recorded by such artists as Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Pat Metheny, Buddy Rich, Jaco Pastorius, Mike Stern, Greg Howe, Tommy Flanagan (who played on the original recording), McCoy Tyner, Kenny Werner, Kenny Garrett, Woody Herman, and Taylor Eigsti, Gary Bartz. The song was recorded by Chaka Khan in 1982 as part of the "Be Bop Medley" from her album "Chaka Khan".
John Coltrane was known for coming into the studio with unrehearsed songs - "Giant Steps" was no exception. On the original recording, Tommy Flanagan (piano) played a choppy start-stop solo where it sounds like he is struggling to improvise over Coltrane changes without adequate preparation. Flanagan would revisit Giant Steps on several recordings later in his career and mastered the progression. In some of the alternate takes, Cedar Walton is at the piano, declining to take a solo and also playing at a slower tempo than the takes with Flanagan.
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Halal is the most kind and peaceful method of slaughtering an animal. Animals are not allowed to experience cruelty, animals must be given a last ...
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Halal is the most kind and peaceful method of slaughtering an animal. Animals are not allowed to experience cruelty, animals must be given a last drink of water, animals may not witness the slaughter of other animals, animals may not even see the knife prior to the slaughter and the actual stroke of the knife must be precise and performed with a very sharp knife to minimize the number of strokes necessary to complete the slaughter. All efforts must be made to give the animal a humane and cruelty free slaughter, if the animal panics, it should not be slaughtered on that occasion and it should be returned to the flock or heard. Once the animal's throat has been cut, severing its arteries and veins, blood must be allowed to drain naturally, then by hanging the carcass and water may be used to flush some remaining blood out, as well. Only after all of these steps, can the animal be skinned and butchered.
Ron Banerjee doesn't even know that Ron is not a hindu name, what could he possibly know about Islamic slaughtering or anything else, about any other religion? By the way, Hindus are supposed to be vegetarian and the very religious, orthodox ones are vegan. Some westernized hindus eat meat, but they do not claim that their scriptures allow it, in any form. I will be honest, I do not know what the vedas and upanishads or the gita, say about slaughtering animals, but from speaking to my hindu friends, I know that they are not supposed to eat any meat. This guy has no friends or followers, he is a loser and no hindu I know, would ever align themselves with someone like him.
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I wish you success in the everything.
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