Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

HI,Tomo Do you have any advice or a way to transcribe songs, melodies, or chord progressions?
When I transcribe songs, I lower the speed of the song's video for melodies, when they are chords I try to listen the bass line

Great question!

Chord progressions! Because even if you could transcribe solo... without chord progressions then you cannot analyze them.

But you can try anything... even simple melody... simple chord progressions...or solo.

Never lower the speed! You need to train your ears! Or pick slower song, easier song... that's better than slow down.
Because when we jam, we don't slow down to understand it.

Bassline is very important.

Let me know how it goes.... Thank you for sharing!
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To everyone, what song did you transcribe?

Thank you.

Tomo

I've been transcribing Noche Corriendo by Matsuoka and Wesing, I find finding the chord progressions as Tomo says to be the first and most important step -- without the chords you can't build anything on top. I find the best order of operations for myself to be:
Find chords / progression
Listen for licks and particular notes being played
Place those notes within the chords
Focus first on ascending lines from those notes, then descending lines (just my own preference)
Put the two together and you have a few bars, now repeat for the full song

This is a very amateur way of doing it since I can't just pick out every note by ear, but if you're in a similar boat and really trying to transcribe a piece, it may be a good brute force method to try.

Anyone please correct me if I'm doing something wrong!

Thanks for the comments, and for the advice