To help me with this task I used: >An old fashioned Piano >Sibelius 7 -music notation app >Amazing Slow Downer -music app
Transcribing The Anchor Song was particularly tricky because of all the free time, that makes it hard to tell the time signature. I switched between 4/4, 3/4, 2/4 and used a bunch of fermata symbols.
>Have you transcribed before? all the time >What have you transcribed? jazz solos, jazz compositions/arrangements >What methods have you used for transcribing? Amazing slow downer Sibelius
Owen Smith
If you want to learn about transcribing I highly recommend videos on the topic by Rick Beato: youtube.com/watch?v=C4ItNMNu7lc
what solos and compositions have you transcribed? Any favorites?
Jose Gray
C'mon people get in the discussion!
Adam Barnes
Share stories on songs/projects you've worked on. What was the last song or part of a song you made a transcription of? Do you have questions/advice on transcribing? Please share your stories Sup Forums, lets have a discussion.
Isaiah Campbell
aw hell yeah bro, i love transcribing *blows brains out with shotgun* jk it's good
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Colton Long
Lately I've been working on a transcription of Elvin Jones' playing on Resolution youtube.com/watch?v=CsxtKQW9ggg This shit is really hard and almost impossible to learn to play. I'm focusing on finding nice patterns that are easily repeatable for practice on the drums.
Mason Turner
Nice. Yeah Rick Beato is great, so much valuable free content, hes def in my top 5 fav youtubers. What's your fav content by him?
Ryder Perez
I binge watch loads of his stuff. I'm not that well-informed on jazz theory, so I tend to watch more of that. I learn so much from him generally - mainly his videos on harmony and modes
William Ward
Yeah his methods on music theory are awesome, I find myself constantly rewinding videos, they're packed with so much information that it's impossible get everything in one listen :D . As a drummer I also struggle with harmony so watching his videos has been a great addition, relearning stuff that I never understood in class. His charts are so logical, I find writing them down really helps retention and modulating the scales is a great exercise.
Daniel Rivera
I've transcribed tons of drum parts to pop songs, jazz drum solos, individual licks, probably a couple other things I can't think of at the moment
Robert Wright
Cool! I started out by transcribing James Brown beats and the first jazz solo transcription I ever did was the 4's on Sid's Ahead as an assignment to my drum teacher.
Jose Bennett
Oh nice, 4's are a good place to start instead of full solos. I've done some Philly Joe Jones as well, the guy was phenomenal.
Jayden Collins
Yeah Philly's great, honestly I feel like still need to listen to him more, I also want to transcribe Art Bakey's and Tony Williams playing. Most recently I've been obsessed by Elvin Jones playing, I just love everything he does. Did a couple 8's of his from Gingerbread boy, really hard. Here's a great simple lesson on him a found a little while ago: youtube.com/watch?v=aIuS5CRZf_k
Easton Jackson
I actually learned an Elvin solo from John Riley's book Beyond Bop Drumming, (great book by the way) it was probably one of the hardest things I've done as a drummer to be honest.
Easton Morgan
I own it too, though only for a little while. Thanks, I didn't even realize it featured the whole solo. I need to start working on that as well.
Mason Anderson
>>Have you transcribed before? Used to make guitar tabs all the time, never to sheet music though. >>What have you transcribed? Mostly bands no one listens to. >>What methods have you used for transcribing? Just my ear and wordpad.
I've been really getting into jazz recently because I've become bored with every other style I play. From all the reading I've done it's seemed to me that transcribing is a big part of the learning process. I can read sheet music, my sight reading is limited to note value though as all my time in school was with marching bands and orchestras because I was always a percussionist. I just wanted to lurk this thread for some ideas from people who actually know what they're doing. Also, if anyone has any site reading resources and are willing to share it'd be much appreciated.
Jordan Powell
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by site reading resources. Since you're getting into jazz I might recommend a website called allaboutjazz.com. Also you might find the exercises on musictheory.net helpful for composition reading. The site features many other good exercises as well. Also the aforementioned Rick Beato has loads of helpful information on many music related topics. Adam Neely has a good music channel as well.
Nathan Price
I'm not even sure if such resources exist, I can read key signatures but I'm currently trying to memorize them. I'm guessing the best method is just to get some sheet music and grind through it. I'll check out that website. I have a really good grasp of theory and my relative pitch is spot on. I'll check out those excercise as well, thank you. I'll check out those youtubers as well.
Grayson Brooks
Oh, also if you've only written guitar tabs using a wordpad, you should try out some music apps like guitar pro or Musescore. Musescore is great in that it's completely free. Transcribe and Amazing slow downer are great tools for slowing down and modulating songs to different keys. Audacity is another free choice though you can't slow down the song separately without the pitch changing as well, that's why Transcribe and AMD are superior. For improving your rhythmic sight reading I recommend syncopation by Ted Reed. It's one of the best books ever written on rhythm and is like the drummers bible because of it's simpleness and practicality. If you're lucky, you might find a free pdf copy just by searching google for it. An other great rhythm book that's a bit more advanced is The New Breed by Gary Chester.
Christopher Stewart
Never transcribed but i've COMPOSED
Angel Bennett
Huh, what kind of music have you composed?
Hunter Sanchez
i like jazz, where do you recomend me to start? i ussually practice the ear, but i am not to good
Hudson Hill
>Have you transcribed before? Yeah, quite often actually. >What have you transcribed? Bass parts for songs from bands like The Beatles, Television, Fugazi, The Smiths... >What methods have you used for transcribing? Ear training and trying to find out the wrong notes. If a note sounds vaguely right I try to find the closest note that clashes really hard, because that way I know I'm nearly always a semitone away.
