Locomotion

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Locomotion by John Coltrane is a composition is a AABA form: the A section is a blues with a simple motif on the first 8 bars while the last 4 bars are improvised and the B is an 8-bar section also improvised over dominant chords descending chromatically from the bVII to the V. 

Coltrane originally recorded this composition on his 1958 Blue Train album.

In this lesson, we study the harmonic progression, chords scales and do a detailed analysis of Coltrane’s solo from which we select ideas and concepts to practice and integrate in our own playing.

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8 comments on “Locomotion

  1. Pierre Gros
    Pierre Gros says:

    Hello Alex i bet you dont have the transcription book in ut….


    • Alex Terrier
      Alex Terrier says:

      no, I’m not even sure that book is available in concert 🙁


      • Guillaume Courty
        Guillaume Courty says:

        If you need a tune, i have the Trane book in ut.


  2. Alex Terrier
    Alex Terrier says:

    Played it last week at a session:


  3. Héctor León
    Héctor León says:

    Awesome! Happy New Year fam!
    Gonna check this tonite! i couldn’t download the “Coltrane Transcr. Solo Book” 🙁
    would be amazing if you can share a link to Drive or maybe its only my browser that didn’t worked 🙂 i tried several times


    • Alex Terrier
      Alex Terrier says:

      Hola Héctor! Lo intenté ahora y está funcionando, ¡lleva algo de tiempo cargar porque tiene 145 páginas! Pero me está funcionando. Dime si puedes conseguirlo o si tienes un mensaje de error.


      • Héctor León
        Héctor León says:

        todo bien jefazo!!! merçi beaucoup 🙂


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