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Back when I was in college, I studied with a great

jazz guitarist in New York City named Steve Cardenas. And Steve is a fantastic jazz musician

tours around the world with lots of different artists and has recorded albums in all senses of the word, a very

accomplished musician and seasoned jazz player. And in one of our lessons one time when I went

out to his house in Brooklyn, he told me something that was slightly disturbing, at least to

the way I was thinking about learning music and jazz at the time.

And that was he told me that he had never transcribed a jazz solo before.

And this shook me up because many of us understand that conventional advice for learning jazz

is to learn jazz solos by ear,

transcribe jazz solos, and he didn't do that. And that kind of threw me in a whirlwind

and kind of turn my world around. So today I want to talk about five reasons why you actually

might not want to be transcribing jazz solos to learn how to play jazz

and improve your solos, let's talk about it.

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