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PG Music Jazz Guitar Solos W
Learn How to Solo Like a
Master
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This program is an interactive learning aid,
designed to help you learn to solo like a professional jazz
guitarist. Musicians studying improvisation typically learn by
copying other soloists' performances. Since guitar is a "visual
instrument", it is easier to learn to play by watching the
fretboard than by reading the music from a staff. The on-screen
guitar fretboard shows you exactly which notes and chords are
being played on the guitar. There are guide notes for typical
positions for the key, and note names, to help you learn the
fret/string positions.
The purpose of this program is to help you to learn the art of
jazz improvisation. The student who wants to learn to improvise
jazz music is usually told to listen to some jazz solos, and
learn from them.
Unfortunately, the student often encounters some obstacles after
receiving this advice.
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There
aren't a lot of jazz solos available in written form. The
few books available may have transcriptions of solos from
records out of print, or hard to obtain, so the student is
unable to hear what the solos are supposed to sound like.
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Many solos
that are written out are of very advanced material, beyond
the playing ability of the student. For example, the student
may struggle to learn 16 bars of a complex John Coltrane
solo based on a modal scale, but finds it difficult to
widely apply this information to more mainstream jazz songs
with typical chord progressions.
We have created a program that has a huge library
of jazz solos, based on the following parameters:
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All of
these solos are "mainstream" playing, based on typical chord
progressions.
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Most of the
soloing uses eighth notes, or triplets, so it is playable by
most musicians.
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Each song
contains 6 full choruses of music. The first 3 choruses of
the song are either played in the Phrygian Position (3rd of
the scale on the lowest string), then the next 3 choruses
are played in the Aeolian Position (6th of the scale on the
lowest string), or in the reverse - in the Aeolian Position
then the Phrygian Position.
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Optional
guide-notes display scale tones in the correct key. Note
names are provided to aid in note/fret recognition.
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You can see
the solos on the on-screen fretboard, hear the solos, slow
them down, or step through them one note at a time.
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You can
play along with the jazz quartet/quintet as you learn the
solos.
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The solos may be printed out for further
study.
How to use the program
- This program contains jazz guitar solos
covering various styles, from easy-to-play to advanced phrases.
We suggest that you learn the phrases by first watching the
On-screen guitar fretboard, while the notation scrolls by.
You'll notice that the notation also contains TAB. To study a
particular phrase, the program includes advanced looping
features. You can loop a number of bars, what you see on the
screen, or the entire song. If the song is playing too quickly,
you can adjust the tempo, or even the key.
Includes
Band-in-a-Box Files
- As an additional bonus, we've included the 50 songs in
Band-in-a-Box format, free with this standalone product. If
you're a Band-in-a-Box user, you'll find the songs in the
JGSOLO50 directory in your main install directory.
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