I like to transpose stuff “kind of” from guitar to sax. So now I know a bunch of metal riffs and some solos on sax, instead of, you know, my actual music in band
Since watching your videos transcribing has been so much fun and it’s been really motivating seeing someone else continue to learn. I recently transcribed your Valerie solo too :) Also I love how my ears tend to figure out the intervals and notes more and more 😁 and how jazz vocabulary becomes more familiar.
HOLY SHIT I was planning to transcribe Fourside from The 8-Bit Big Band and searched for a tutorial on how to transcribe and NO WAY you made a video about how to transcribe the solo from the Bob-omb Battlefield music from the 8-Bit Big Band!!!!!!!!!!!
So helpful to see the process you use. I often ended up with rows of pitches but wouldn’t get around to putting the rhythm in. Also the way you make your marks, the fine pen, Audacity. It all seems obvious and in the back of my mind I sort of ‘knew it’ but it makes all the difference when you see it done. I haven’t been disciplined enough to not use my instrument in the past but over 30 years ago I wanted to transcribe Chet Baker’s Summertime. I’m from the UK but my teacher was American and had studied at university. I was astonished when I told him I wanted to transcribe it that he said to do it without the instrument and just did it by identifying the intervals by ear. Anyway, now I no longer have to work for a living i have no excuse not to transcribe all those solos especially now you have provided the road map. So grateful.
Oh man this is awesome! I've spent the past two days doing my first transcription (Cannonball's solo from Elsa), this would be a super cool skill to develop!
Seems like that typical transcribing environment and all the glamour that comes with it. Pitches in dark rooms without sax. Nice vid man 👌, I like that way of transcribing
Thanks so much man! I loved watching the process of you listening and writing it down. I've been a musician for many years but only now am I getting into notation and transcribing and all! This was gold content, thank you, I learned a lot!
It is but I don’t even think they are quintuplets. When I played with the recording it didn’t line up with complete 5s or 6s so I take it that it’s a mix of both. But I am confident he wasn’t thinking of super complex rhythms at that part, so I don’t want to be that guy to over complicate things in the transcription
Hey Saxologic, i saw your concert just a couple weeks ago, i felt bad for that bari player after you hit a fire solo on a song that was about her, still fire doe. Also i wrote subscribe to saxologic on the whiteboard in the backroom.
Hahahahaha I didn't know you took little peeks at this solo. It's funny because we literally talked about it lmao. I'm starting my transcribing project with this btw ;)
Transcribing with an instrument is tough but doable , but without an instrument, that’s wow ... but I get the point , you would have spent time and time listening to it and would already know what it sounds like ... well done
I don't know how you're doing that. First I would have slowed down the tempo by a lot. Second I would have used MuseScore. Do they really still sell these note books ? Third, I would have failed miserably and go to bed crying.
Is your bebop tonguing scale exercise essentially just "Straight back accents"? I have no jazz chops as a classical player and that exercise sounds like it might help me
thank you so much for the video, I've been working on doing this like 1 year and finally is getting kind of easier, but I usually use the help of a tuner while singing, butI try to use it as little as possible, what do you think of transcribing like this?
Here's a Video Suggesstion: *_"Il vento d'oro"_*_ Saxophone Licks_ (Giorno's Theme Sax Licks)....... *P.S.* : This is already a meme, which means it could lead to more views & subscribers, then you can make more off videos off of teaching people the lick itself.
How do you find the F# to begin if you don't have perfect pitch ??? From "where" do you ear it if not ? I just can not because only have relative ear...
I don’t even think he played 5-tuplets; I think he just played a bunch of notes that sounded good till the big hit from the band, because neither 6-tuplets for 5-tuplets lined up with the recording.
