Just Friends, written by John Klenner and Sam M. Lewis, is a popular jazz standard from the Great American Songbook, often performed at medium-up tempos with bebop vocabulary. At Fretprints, we explore this tune across lessons covering harmony, improvisation, comping, and more.
Harmonic Analysis
Explore the chord changes, form, and harmonic structure of this tune.
Melody and Etudes
Study the melody, transcriptions, and written-out etudes.
Podcast
Listen to in-depth discussions about this tune.
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