John Coltrane

If you are a jazz musician wishing to improve your improvisation skills, you' have to know who John Coltrane is. Whether you play jazz piano, trumpet, guitar drums or saxophone, you'll quickly learn that Coltrane was one of the most dynamic, innovative legends of jazz soloists of any instruments. John Coltrane's solos are full of imaginative, melodic compositional playing. There is probably no such thing as an advanced jazz sax player who hasn't attempted the chord changes of Coltrane's infamous and sophisticated jazz composition, Giant Steps.

Coltrane playing Giant Steps

This animation is a perfect depiction of the fluidity, color and inventiveness of the sounds coming from John Coltrane's mind and sax. After all these years, it still sounds as awesome as the first time jazz enthusiasts heard it.

What Giant Steps Looks like

You've heard what the notes sound like; now, you can follow along the transcript of those amazingly innovative sounds that are coming out of the horn of John Coltrane. Jazz sax players - or any jazz play for that matter, you gotta love the internet and you tube.