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Front Page
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Links to other sites
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Introduction to the lesson:
transcribed excerpt from Coltrane's cadenza on "I Want To Talk About You"
plus a sound file.
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Analysis of the extract, talking
about Coltrane's use of minor 9th arpeggios in consecutive major 3rds
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Some patterns and exercises
leading on from Talkabout 1
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A second excerpt from the cadenza
based on a similar approach. Making the minor 9th arpeggios into a linear
scale. Links to pages on the Augmented
Scale, Slonimsky,
Alexander
Tcherepnin.
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A supplemental page with more
patterns and exercises based on this scale, this time with midi soundfiles
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A third extract from the Coltrane
cadenza on a completely different track. This page links to other pages
on Pentatonic
scales, the Altered
7th, Tritone
Substitutions, False-fingerings
and 'out-of-key'
playing, as well as a page on the philosophy
of practice.
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This is the chill-out room in the site. When you need a break you can hang out here for a while, read a couple of inspiring quotes about practising or unexpectedly jump to other relaxing websites by clicking on anything you can see
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This is a link to the Student Pages. Lots of interesting stuff here too including a monthly section on multiphonics, and solos by top UK altoist Peter King and David Sanborn
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