Secret Love with Coltrane (Giant Steps) Changes

In this class, master guitarist Randy Johnston teaches you how to superimpose the Coltrane Giant Steps changes over the standard “Once I Had a Secret Love” and also gives you specific patterns and licks to play over these changes. Randy explains how these patterns and phrases were created so that you can create your own lines and also how to superimpose these substitute changes over any standard progression.

By taking the class and practicing the ideas presented, you will be able to improvise on Secret Love using the Giant Steps (Coltrane) substitution and apply this same substitution to any ii-V-I progression. Looking to get secret tips for the standard Secret Love, then look no further than Randy’s course.

• Sub-topic 1: Substituting the Coltrane Giant Steps changes over any standard proression

• Sub-topic 2: Analysis of patterns used to create lines over these substitutions

• Sub-topic 3: Two complete 4 bar phrases (licks) using these patterns with explanations of how these phrases were created

Categories:

• Comping

• Modern Jazz Guitar

• Soloing

• Standards

• Theory

Includes a PDF of the Transcribed Solo & Techniques Used