there is -- that there is?

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Is the sentence in blue grammatically correct?
Does this sentence mean "You can learn every Coltrane solo that there is without ever listening to a record"?

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You could remove there is if you like.

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You could remove there is if you like.

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Since most books tell us learners that the word "there" is -- grammatically

speaking -- superfluous, I was wondering whether we could also say:


You can learn every Coltrane solo that is without ever listening to a record.

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NOT A TEACHER


Since most books tell us learners that the word "there" is -- grammatically

speaking -- superfluous, I was wondering whether we could also say:


You can learn every Coltrane solo that is without ever listening to a record.

No, that doesn't work.

You can learn every Coltrane solo that exists (or which exists) without ever ....
You can learn every Coltrane solo [there is] without ever ....