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Get Educated > From the Vault - Andy Summers "Big fat & Sassy"

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No, not the girl you knew in high school who has gained eighty pounds, but rather the ideas that ex-Police guitarist Andy Summers presents in this video. Things begin to hit home in this video about note choices while improvising, chord voicings, chosing a key on the guitar for greater ease when doing arrangements of standards, and some really nice chord solos of 'Round Midnight and Think Of One.

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