![]() The very first, most basic step for transcribing involves hearing a note and replicating it on our instrument. Regardless of which of these methods you use, the first steps in the process are exactly the same. Personally I find writing down my transcriptions of phrases or whole solos is best, because over time I have built up a resource of these transcriptions which I can draw on in my practice sessions. Some people however prefer not to write down their transcriptions, and simply rely on their memory. If you are not a confident music reader, the thought of writing out a complicated solo can seem a huge hurdle, but even writing down the notes in your own shorthand is a step in the right direction. We can either simply work aurally and recreate what we hear on our instrument, or we can write down our transcription as we learn it and keep it as a reference for later practice. There are two main ways to tackle transcribing although sometimes a combination of both works great. So how do we get started with transcribing if we haven’t tried to do it before? Methods The reason for this is simple: studying the great players that came before us is without doubt one of the best and fastest ways to develop our own skills. Reno De Stefano (ii-V resolutions, Wes Montgomery, etc.Talk to just about any great saxophone player and they will tell you that transcribing has been an integral part of their learning.Giant Steps Progression and Cycle Diagrams (Dan Adler).Jazz Improvisation and Organizing: Once More from the Top.Theta Music Trainer (several ear-training games).Robin Schmidt's Music Engineering Tools.PLUM (Progamming Languages Used for Music).Progressionator (progression-generator).(a variety of tools for piano, guitar, etc., Ontario Conservatory).NinJam (real-time music collaboration software).NIFF (Notation Interchange File Format).Leadsheet Notation (pure text notation for leadsheets).Java Music Specification Language (JMSL).VisiChord (Chord sequence visualizer developed at HMC).Virtual Piano Chords (A Passion for Jazz).Theta Music Trainer (Tonic Finder, etc.).Scale Calculator and Chord Calculator (guitar-oriented).(Animated theory lessons, trainers, chord calculators).Michael Norris various calculators (dissonance, harmonic series, etc.).Interchart (Interactive Chord and Scale Chart).ChordWizard spreadsheet (fretted instruments).Chord Voicing Calculator (Mathematica-based).Brian's huge chordlist collection (for string instruments).Doug McKenzie (piano videos with scores).Gold Standard Song List (interactive explorer of tunes by genre and decade).Pascal Wetzel's HomePage (Bill Evans Transcriptions).Trumpet Transcriptions (Jacques & Claude Gilbert).Transcriptions and Patterns (Charles McNeal).Jeff's trumpet solo transcriptions, etc..uk Jazz Transcription Service (Andrew Barton).Jazz&Archtops (Brent Stuntzner Guitar Transcriptions).How to Transcribe (Seventh String Software).Effective Solo Transcription (Jeff Helgesen).C.Mark Halberstadt's Transcriptions in Eb key.Barking Munchkin (Pat Martino and other guitar solo transcriptions).Music Library Association (Collections).(free backing tracks, by Lee Griffith).Beatriz Kauffman's Web Site (Brazilian music).MAHAMIDI - Midi Files of John Mclaughlin.(scanned leadsheets from fakebooks, Russian).Hoagy Carmichael (Indiana University Collections).Vanilla Book of chord changes (Ralph Patt).iRealPro (formerly iRealBook, then iRealb).Chord Charts that Transpose ( how to use).Fake Books with tables of contents (Playjazz).Jass Standards A to Z (compiled by Glenn Betcher).Bob Keller's Fakebook Index (Google spreadsheet).List of Music Indexes (Long Island University).University of Washington Popular Song Index.Stan Getz Library Leadsheet Book Index (Berklee College of Music).Comprehensive Index of Jazz Sheet Music.List of songs in Aebersold Play-A-Long series.Bud Powell Resources (Google spreadsheet).Playing one of my original tunes, "Benny's Dream" (video).The Joy of Fakebooks (and Fakebook Review).Try Version 10 of our free software tool for the improviser: Impro-Visor (Improvisation Advisor).Free Bill Evans Tribute Concert, Film, and Master Class at Harvey Mudd College, November 19, 2017.( A few others have found it useful as well.) Which I want to refer and to which I refer my students.
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