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Fully-Featured
Interactive Jazz Guitar Solos 
The Master Jazz Guitar Solos program is a fully-featured
interactive music program with professional jazz quartet/quintet
arrangements of 50 songs. Each song features a jazz guitar solo played
by a top studio musician, as well as accompanying piano (comping), bass,
drums, and strings. There are almost 5 hours of jazz guitar soloing in
this program.
Learn how to solo like a master!
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 lean the art of jazz
improvisation. The student who wants to lean 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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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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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.
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We have created a program that has a huge library of jazz solos,
based on the following parameters:
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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.
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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.
HOW TO ORDER
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System Requirements
Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98/NT.
16MB RAM.
PC Soundcard or MIDI module.
CD-ROM Drive |
