What classical musicians can learn from jazz musicians
Screenshot of the transcription process (inside MuseScore) Importance of transcribingĪs I mentioned in the preface, this was my very first transcription of a jazz solo, or any bigger fragment for that matter.ĭuring my studies as a classical pianist at my conservatory I always looked up to the jazz students, who could easily transcribe such complicated fragments of music.Ĭomplicated in a rhythmical, harmonic and melodic sense, mind you. I will mention some challenges I was facing, provide the download link to the solo transcription pdf and provide more thoughts from a point of view of a classical musician. In this case it is the solo from “O Ephraim” from the Album “Finding Gabriel” by Brad Mehldau. In this blog post I would like to go over my first experience transcribing a (any) jazz solo. Transcribing the synthesizer solo from O Ephraim from Finding Gabriel by Brad Mehldau
