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For all instruments John Coltrane's landmark composition, Giant Steps, is one of the most highly coveted jazz standards. Learning how to improvise over Giant Steps is a desire of many intermediate and advanced players. In this series of 3 videos I will outline a progressive and methodical improvisation based approach to tackling this challenging set of changes with greater confidence. There are 15 sets of changes in total, grouped into 3 videos of similar exercises.

0:00 Intro and Explanation
2:40 Tonic Majors (Major Scale)
10:30 Dominant Sevens (Mixolydian)
18:15 Minors 7s on ii (Dorian)
26:05 Minor 7b5s on vii (Locrian, Half Diminished scale/Locrian Natural 2)
33:50 Relative Minors (Natural minor/Pure Minor/Aeolian)

These changes will focus on the major scale, dominant scale (mixolydian mode), dorian mode, natural/relative minor scale (aeolian mode) and the minor 7b5 half diminished scale (locrian or locrian natural 2 interpretation are both great!). By modulating each of these chord types around the augmented structure, we will be presented with a fresh perspective over the Coltrane changes. Each of these perspectives, or paths, will strengthen our comprehension and comfort when we eventually work our way through all 15 primers studies up to the full progression.

Be aware that these routines will also help our comprehension of Coltrane's other jazz/fusion compositions such as Moment's Notice, 26-2, Countdown, Satellite, Hot House among other classic standards such as Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart's Have You Met Miss Jones?

This video should be useful to guitar players, piano players, saxophone players, trumpet players and more with an intermediate understanding of jazz improvisation and theory!

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