![]() If you have trouble identifying intervals or basic rhythms, it’s probably not time to start transcribing yet. If you have the understanding necessary to make sense of the solo’s rhythms and harmony, then you can slow a solo down (or speed it up!) to adjust its level of difficulty. And, of course, you’ll be more likely to make mistakes. Otherwise you’ll wind up transcribing it mechanically and not learn very much. Go for something within your reach or just beyond it. ![]() Rather than try to give an explicit step-by-step method for transcribing, I’ll give a number of tips followed by an example of doing a transcription… Choose something appropriate to your level.ĭon’t transcribe something that’s harmonically or rhythmically well beyond your understanding. We also wind up reverse engineering the solo in the process, which gives us insights about what makes it tick. If we instead use our musical reasoning faculties to get the job done, we strengthen them… and these are of enormous use to us on the bandstand and off. But that’s not a skill that helps us much when we’re improvising on the bandstand. The “hunt and peck” approach makes use of one skill above all else: comparing pitch on a recording to a pitch played on an instrument. ![]()
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