Jazz Guitar : Transcriptions How-To

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A discussion on the transcription process for jazz musicians. As per a request by Jay Green, a visitor of the website.

In this video, I discuss preparation, actual transcription and what to do after you've lifted something from a recording. Those are all the tips I can think of, and they all come from my personal experience of learning solos, songs, compings, arrangements, rhythms (etc.) from great jazz recordings.

I hope you find this useful and please, let me know if you have any questions.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• guitar
• how
• to
• transcribe

[Fretanation]

lol, so which artists are junk food? :)

[jazzguitarlessonsnet]

@Fretanation This is for you to decide! (-:

[StromboliKicks]

So do you think it's pointless to pick up a song I like and just try to learn note by note the melody or the solo? I understand what you say about how important is to know the key or the scales that belongs to the solo, cause I've tried to transcribe some solos, but as I don't know what chords are behind, I kinda miss the point of the notes, but I do it anyway just for the fun.

[jazzguitarlessonsnet]

@StromboliKicks Well, knowing the scales and theory only helps to broaden your perspective on the musical content. It's always fun to "just play" for the heck of it. I do it all the time with tunes I love too.

[Fretanation]

I agree, times change and we should use what we have to transcribe :) Thanks for this!