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Bud's Blues: Sonny Stitt Solo

Great bebop solo that is almost playable in places.  Sounds too sloppy at 100%, so choose to slow it down a touch.  I am also including a summary of licks and technical things that I want to take away from this.  So many little trills in bebop.  I am devising some exercises to be better at adding them to my playing/lines.  Using the trill symbol (mordent) in the notation out of pure laziness...








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  1. Great work. Those double time licks are worth working on.

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