Guide To The Talkabout Lesson 
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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.
Analysis of the extract, talking about Coltrane's use of minor 9th arpeggios in consecutive major 3rds
Some patterns and exercises leading on from Talkabout 1
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
A supplemental page with more patterns and exercises based on this scale, this time with midi soundfiles
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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