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Old 10-29-2005, 04:12 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by halfdeadhippo
My guitar teacher told me a story at my most recent lesson regarding his experience with listening to John Coltrane. To summarize: he never used to think Coltrane had anything going except technicality. Then, he went to college, trained his ears a bit, and suddenly he could hear the chord changes in the solos and he realized that Coltrane had a lot more going on than first meets the ears. I still can't hear what my teacher's talking about, so I can't explain it any better. All I'm saying is that what seems like an endless fury of notes at first usually has something deeper going on.

'Trane was known for his flowing arpeggio solos.
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