It’s good to be aware of a variety of approaches to transcription, try out a few of them, and use whatever method works for you.Transcribing (learning licks and solos by ear) has become such an accepted sacred cow of the jazz education world that few bother to question its effectiveness. I’m a piano player, so I’ll add in my own comp over the changes. I prefer to learn a solo by ear without writing it down because I think it helps you internalize the solo better. Transcribing adds ideas into your playing, improves your ear, and increases your technique. I think a balanced approach is good: transcribing with a purpose in mind. Still, transcribing by notation is great for analyzing a solo and learning cognitively.įor this reason, I think the maximum benefit you can get out of a solo would be to use the 80-80-80 method (as described above), and after you’ve THOROUGHLY learned the transcription and internalized it, then you can write it down and save it for posterity (for your teaching studio, for your own benefit if you want to relearn it again at another time, etc.) It becomes a part of you as you learn to play it. Let me stress that an intangible thing happens when you learn a solo without writing it down. In this case, writing it down is the way to go. Perhaps your goal is to transcribe a solo for other people to learn, such as in a teaching situation. Maybe writing them down might help you in that process, but you may not have to. If your goal is to learn some new licks, you can learn small parts of the solos of other people and transpose them into all 12 keys. If that is your goal, then option #2 will suffice. For instance, if you are transcribing a particular tune, you might be transcribing in order to put the melody and chord changes in front of a band for a gig situation. Use the 80-80-80 Method: Listen 80 times, Sing 80 Times, Play 80 Times(perhaps this would be the 800-800-800 Method…whatever you need to do!)The approach you use should depend on your goals. Learn the solo first, then write it down 5. Write down the solo, and then learn to play it 4. Write down the solo (for analysis), and don’t learn to play it 3. Learn the solo on your instrument completely by ear 2.
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