Just for context, I’ve been playing guitar for about 6 years, learned to read music and have been pretty much only studying jazz theory during this time. Aside from dabbling in a little bit of transcribing by ear small parts of tunes this will be my first real dedicated attempt to learn a standard.


I’ve been listening to the Chet Baker version of Autumn Leaves quite a bit. Is there another version I should be referencing as a source to get familiar with the tune? Also, concerning the Chet Baker version, it has several solos. I know I should obviously learn the main theme but what classifies a person as “knowing the tune”? Should I just pick one solo and learn that or do I need to know them all before I can say I know the tune? Finally, I plan on supplementing learning this tune with some type of notation…any tips on what notated version would be best to use would be very much appreciated. Oh and i imagine BIAB will be helpful as well though I’m very new to the program.

Thanks so much for your input.

Last edited by BeatsAndGuitars; 02/04/25 07:31 PM.
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