Talk:Four note group

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Coltrane changes

This article is relevant and should be extracted from the discussion about Coltrane changes. Many jazz artists including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Bill Evans user Four note group patterns to build solos and practice ideas. I have located citations from a professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA who has documented the development and usage of Four Note Groups in jazz solos. I will provide additional material and documentation as I have time.

Thanks, Blyons3 (talk) 21:44, 24 January 2011 (UTC)Bill Lyons[reply]

Is this an actual term used by Coltrane, etc., and published in sources? Hyacinth (talk) 07:59, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The terminology may not be standardized but the method is common practice. I don't know if the Ed Saindon text is the best source for this, maybe a more well known/standard jazz theory source is available. For example, the author calls them "four-note digital patterns" [1]BassHistory (talk) 06:31, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]