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Etude over Giant Steps with some voicing ideas.
-Tyler

Chord Tone Soloing on Coltrane's Giant Steps. Some practice techniques and concepts include focusing on motives, soloing with chord tones while limiting the range to an octave and chord tone connection in which we go up and down the entire range of the instrument with 8th notes and go to the closest note in the new chord.

A few things to also think about: start a phrase in different places of the measure, avoid hitting beat 1 too much, use syncopated figures, connect from chord to chord (especially during a key change) with stepwise motion, use of motives.

Original composition from David Kovins' book Vibraphone Portfolio published by Keyboard Percussion Publications

David Kovins Jazz Vibe Boogie Original Composition
published by Honey Rock Music

This is being translated for Chinese students.

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