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title: Introduction to jazz improvisation
tags: audio,music,guitar,coursera,learning,jazz
---

Since a few weeks I'm learning how to play more interesting jazz solos
from Gary Burton through his [Coursera](http://coursera.org) MOOC
[Introduction to
Improvisation](https://class.coursera.org/improvisation-001/).

What's great about the course is that it forces me to record solos and
upload them for peer review.  I don't normally publish practice
recordings as I'm never quite satisfied with them, but this also means
that many half-decent ideas are never published at all.

You can find my growing collection of improvisation recordings in
fulfilment of the assignments [on
SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/rekado/sets/gary-burtons-improvisation),
embedded below:

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