The most feared song in jazz, explained

I highly recommend this Vox explainer on John Coltrane's "Giant Steps", for anyone interested in learning about the math behind one of Jazz' greatest innovations. ▶ this video

If you don’t have the time (or the musical background) for the full article, this short YouTube video touches on some of the same ideas in a much more condensed and accessible version: ▶ this video

Nice site but we're at the point in "Show an In Depth Thing on Hacker News" where circles like these need to be presented with a live GUI that includes sound and colors as you spin the circles around to play different chords. towards my craving for instant gratification with sound and lights I found a well produced video by Vox on the subject: ▶ this video

If you're looking for a comprehensible to mortals explanation of the genius that can be found in Jazz, watch this explainer on Coltrane's Giant Steps. ▶ this video

I keep a Google Document of these to share just in case people ask about my YouTube interests. I Actually Watched All of Them I have actually watched ALL of the videos on these channels and I don’t even feel bad about it :-) I actually like new videos from some of the ones below (like NativLang, for example) but they maybe don’t hold up in the early videos. - Space Time: PBS Physics, sooo good -- link -- Great first video: link - Lindsay Ellis: Really, really intelligent video essays about film and culture -- link -- Great First Video: link - Periodic Videos: Chemistry, including a video for every element -- link -- Great first video (obviously): link Other Math and Science - 3Blue1Brown: Amazing math visualizations -- link -- Great first video, how e^pi*i works: link - NumberPhile: Fun math videos -- link -- Great first video: link - PBS Eons: Biology! -- link -- Great first video: link - PBS Infinite Series: Math math math, really really hard math -- link -- Great first video: link - SciShow: Science! More poppy but fun -- link -- Silly first show: link -- Actual physics: link - VSauce: Science-y? -- link -- Great first video: link - Practical Engineering: -- link -- Great first video: link Other Humanities - Alliterative: Connections via language -- link -- Great first video about gin and gimlets: link - Bon Appetit: Such fun food stuff! -- Gourmet Makes: link -- It’s Alive: link - Masaman: Genetics and human migration (and