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How to Improve Your Smooth Jazz Improv Skills

Anyone who’s followed my site for awhile knows that I emphasize building your jazz vocabulary by listening to the players you like and working with good transcriptions of solos.   The idea being that the more you work those licks and phrases into your own playing, you’ll eventually create your own voice when improvising.  This is …

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Just Friends Solo Transcription

Some of you have asked that I produce a transcription of the solo that I played in this video here: http://learnjazzguitar.com/2008/02/27/just-friends/ I’m happy to report that I have completed the PDF chart for you to download. Here’s what you get: Standard Notation – An accurate transcription of all the notes that I played in that …

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