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- Maybe this works as review for people who already know it, but it seems like it might be overwhelming for beginners. Learning to recognize 2-5-1 when you hear it in a song might be a better way to start?
Despite taking piano lessons as a kid, I was in college before I learned to recognize 12-bar blues whenever I heard it. That's pretty late, but you're part of the lucky 10,000 whatever day you learn.
by skybrian - Giant steps is a triangle, Central Park west is a squareby asimpletune
- These visual aids will make a musician of you the way a slide rule will make you an engineer.by kazinator
- Isn't this basically just mirror image of this?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_fifthsby harvie
- Here's an explanation of John Coltrane's "Giant Steps."by tniemi
- "Everyone thinks Coltrane wrote that, he didn’t. It’s Slonimsky. That book started all the jazz guys improvising in 12-tone. Coltrane carried that book around till the pages fell off."
-- Quincy Jones
by bita_nidir - Here I made this for you cool cats: https://eznj.github.io/coltraneby _eznj