Re: transcribing

reed ( (no email) )
Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:43:32 +0000

At 09:26 AM 12/13/96 +100, you wrote:
>Hej everybody out there!
>
>I have just started to transcribe solos away from my instrument.
>I use a cromatic C pitchpipe from J Aebersold.
>If the solo is in -let=B4s say - E-flat, I transpose the solo to C=20
>because it is easier to check intervals.
>When I write down the solo I write it in the original key.
>
>Am I doing the right thing? Or, do I have to stay in the original key=20
>all the time?
>
>Thanks in advance
>Arndt Meiler
>meiler@nicdataphone.se
>
>
>
Arndt,

Whatever works for you is best.

I transcribe to the original key.

Take a look at the slides from my transcribing course:

http://www.justjazz.com/transcribe.pdf

reed