Giant Steps Backing Track - In this jam track the student will be able to face a great challenge that is to improvise on this Coltrane piece.

"Giant Steps" is a 1959 composition by the great saxophonist John Coltrane, it was released in 1960 on an album with the same name.

Here the student will encounter a cyclic cadence of chords that became known as "Coltrane Changes". The theme is full of modulations from start to finish in cadences II-V-I with and without substitutions. It is very important to do a complete harmonic analysis of this topic before improvising on it.

This jazz standard has already been played by several instrumentalists, names like Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Michael Brecker, Kenny Garrett, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Woody Herman, Joe Pass, Bireli Lagrene, Jimmy Bruno, Joe Lovano, Vital Tech Tones, Pat Metheny , John Patitucci, Buddy Rich, Billy Cobham and many others.

This backing track consists of drums, double bass and piano. The tempo is 250bpm.

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