THANK YOU JUNE!!! I’m at the point in my music “career” where I don’t play nearly as many gigs as I used to, but I still love to sit down at my baby grand and read through different piano books. Piano was my first instrument but after a few years of lessons, I started playing drums/percussion in my middle school band. Thankfully, I continued to keep my piano reading skills fairly sharp throughout the years. So now, when I see a transcription of a song like Jacob Collier’s version of Stevie Wonder’s “Don’t You Worry Bout A Thing”, it means that I can actually play certain parts of it, thanks to you. Just to be able to look at the chord structures that he uses is gonna be like a lesson in itself. I really hope that one day soon, Jacob Collier will be a household name because of his unique way of looking at music. His name and yours are already household names in my household. 😉
Amazing job June Lee...! For most of us, listening to Jacob Collier's music is just an 'experience' to be enjoyed. There are very few people on the planet that can analyse it and understand it like you do.
That last part is really interesting! When you hear it, it sounds like it's still in 4/4, which, of course, it is -- as you even write. But I think the subdivision is something that really only comes out when you notate it, and now that I see it on paper and listen to it again I can hear the 5/8 and 7/8, which I didn't spot before. Great work as always.
June, thank you! I'm sure many of us would love to see a video about how you developed your ear and transcribing ability, and how you go about transcribing a harmonic monster like Jacob Collier. You truly have a gift.
I've always heard Section V>end as being 8 bar sections in 4/4 time (which it is), I didn't actually realise he'd grouped it as 5 bars of 5/8 + 1 bar of 7/8. 5 bars of 5/8 gives you 25 eighth notes. Add to that 1 bar of 7/8 and you have 32 eighth notes. If you write rhat as quarter notes you get 16/4. 16/4 is 4 bars so as he does the 5/8 to 7/8 grouping twice, it's 4 bars x 2, which equals 8 bars. Funki boi
@@dannyvegasman You're welcome haha! It is a brazilian "kinda-percussion" instrument played with a unique technique in which you rub a wet piece of cloth in a stick made of wood located inside the instrument (and I can't think of another instrument in the world that uses a similar friction-based method to produce sounds - maybe the violin family?). To produce different notes (and, depending on your skill, maybe some scales and melodies) you press the top skin of the instrument in which the "stick" is fixed. This instrument is more common to see in traditional and more "folk" samba, but I love when I see it used in a more modern 60s and 70s brazilian jazz-samba-bossa samba-rock variants, and I could immediately recomend for you if you wanna see some great players of this instrument the group Trio Mocotó, a "samba-rock" group from the 70s that played a lot with famous brazilian artists like Jorge Ben and Toquinho (and they also have a great album made with Dizzy Gillespie in which Fritz, the cuíca player, show all his talent - just search "Trio Mocotó Dizzy Gillespie" and you should find it) and also a great cover from Sivuca (another awesome brazilian bossa and "fusion" accordion and guitar player) of "Ain't No Sunshine" which original author I don't remember. I will try to send some examples for you through here, there are some songs in which the cuíca playing is mindblowing...
@@dannyvegasman Águas de Março, by A. C. "Tom" Jobim, with the melody ENTIRELY played on the cuíca by Fritz "Escovão" from Trio Mocotó: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tqTlFa3Fnlk.html
O Terceiro Mundo I immediately RU-vidd some examples. I’m trying to better understand Latin percussion instruments and techniques and how I would include them in a music score. Wonderful stuff and thanks again.
Amazing transcription. This music deserves an ear as detailed as yours, I hope many great things happen for you. I hope - for your sanity! - you're at least transcribing from stems, if not the original tracking session...surely you're not creating this transcription from a commercial release...are you?
June Lee That's amazing, good for you! It makes total sense that another legendary transcriptionist, Steve Vai, would be all over this. All the best to you. "Subscribed" is a given.
