Transcriptions & Improvising
Peter P Longo ( intune@juno.com )
Tue, 04 Feb 1997 04:13:15 EST
Reed, I am somewhat confused by your comments that you can only learn
solo's via accurate transcriptions.
In an earlier append you stated that your transcriptions, played by top
players, would sound
exact IF they had heard the solo you transcribed.
This seems to indicate that you acknowledge that transcriptions fall
short of representing
what a player is doing. Is that so?
My experience has been that playing with a solo is the only way to get
the true feel.
Transcription is a valuable exercise but I believe the best you can
attain is just a sketch of
what is really going on. Actually playing with a solo (under the auspices
of a good teacher, for students)
is the real transcription of notes, and feel. What do you think?
Finally, I do think that you can memorize a solo fully. In fact,
involving the other senses,
the touch and feel of your instrument, and the actual audio output, aids
this process.
This is why singing is so valuable. The physical aspects of singing
making remembering much easier.
BTW, I apologize for not having snippets from your earlier appends on
this. I hope I got your points
correctly. I hadn't intended to get to much into this discussion and
didn't keep those earlier appends.
Could use an accurate transcription I guess....
Pete.