Sheets of Sound Explained (John Coltrane)

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This Jazz Piano Tutorial is about John Coltrane's Sheets of Sound technique.

The term Sheets of Sound was coined by music critic Ira Gitler in the liner notes for Coltrane album - Soultrane (1958). He used it to describe Coltrane’s improvisational style at the time.

Coltrane’s music can be broken into 3 periods:
Vertical
Horizontal (Modal Jazz)
Experimental (Free Jazz)

Coltrane's Sheets of Sound technique falls into the Vertical Period which is in the late 1950’s on albums like Blue Train and Soultrane, his work with Thelonious Monk, and with Miles Davis on Milestones.

This technique technique is a ‘vertical’ improvisation technique, that is, it uses arpeggios, patterns, licks and scales that trace out each chord in a chord progression. Coltrane tried to squeeze every possible implication, every possible chord, every possible scale from a song’s harmony.

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