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John Coltrane: “Giant Steps” + “Giant Steps (Alternate Version)”
I recently crammed this together in Ableton. I took the two versions of “Giant Steps” I have on my computer, tempo-matched them, and then extended the one that was shorter so they end at the same time.
You can really hear the structuring principles behind the piece here, both the large scale structure of sections and the patterns within the improvisation.
Live has a hell of a time with non-electronic music, so I had to go in and correct most of the beats by hand; this means that occasionally the drums in the two versions go temporarily out of phase, but oh well! I recommend listening on headphones or speakers with decent stereo separation, because it can get a little muddy in there—I’ve panned the two versions out a little, so it actually sounds (I think) kind of nice through headphones.
update:
A couple images for the visually-minded among you—one of the whole piece, one of the intro segment.
The top track is actually one continuous piece; I just split out the middle section to adjust the volume a little.
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