Superimpose and substitute changes while you improvise like Charlie Parker and John Coltrane

Superimpose and substitute changes while you improvise like Charlie Parker and John Coltrane Great jazz musicians don’t just play over the chord changes as written. They make up their own chord progressions and superimpose them over the original changes. I’m going to show you an example inspired by Coltrane and Bird that takes a 2-5-1 in G (Am7-D7-GMaj7) and superimposes a new chord progression based on Bbm7, Am7, Ebm9, CmMaj7 and Bmin9. If you listen to Bird or Coltrane, you hear them do this type of thing all the time but I’ve notated and broken it down for your study and repertoire. For an extreme example of this, listen to coltrane’s solo with cannonball adderly on the Limehouse Blues performance. You can hear him superimposing countdown changes over the 2-5-1 chords. We’ll get into that in a future lesson. Please like, comment and subscribe to my youtube: , I’ve also got a patreon and Ko-fi