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He still didn't have to act like a condescending jackass. A guy like Larry Carlton, who is every bit Scofield's equal on the instrument, treats people with a lot more respect, and understands that there's value in breaking down the kinds of lines he plays for the purpose of teaching.

I think Scofield is a blowhard--for a lot of reasons. And the last album of his I bought was the most god-awful thing I've ever heard. ;) So there, Sco.

Jeff

Interesting exchange between Jimmy Leslie (writer) and John Scofield in the
Jan. 2011 issue of Guitar Player magazine. I was glad to see Sco tell it
like it is!

GP: That's a cool chord. Can you explain what you play during the
chromatic-sounding head melody that follows?

JS: There's nothing to explain. You just need to check out the notes, and
they are what they are.

GP: I know it's difficult, but can you take a shot at describing some of
the fantastic moves you make- whether they are pieces of chords, or chromatic
notes-that make your playing beyond the box, but not too far out?

JS: I won't describe them. I'm not going to oversimplify what has been my
life's work, which is to develop a vocabulary in jazz. You learn licks,
phrases, and songs, and then you try to piece together what you've learned
tastefully so that you don't sound like you are regurgitating licks. You
listen to what's going on for inspiration, and if you trust your own mind and
instinct, then you will come up with another idea... Eventually, you
realize you've said enough, and then it's time to shut up and end your solo.

Later on in the article, Scofield makes the following comment:

"I hope I didn't come across as rude when I was waxing on about how you
can't explain licks and stuff like that. It's just a pet peeve of mine. I
realize that's part of what the magazine does, but for me it's too close to
"jazz guitar in ten easy steps." I won't dumb it down because I think smart
people are going to get into it for what it is, and they want to know the
real deal. Jazz takes strong desire, and it requires a lot of practice. Once
it's ingrained, it's like a magic trick done with mirrors. You become
fluent in a certain way that's even greater than your understanding of how you
got there. People think fluency in jazz is a big intellectual thing, but
it's actually just a lot of work. You have to do the time."

Straight talk from someone who "walks the talk".

Cheers,
JV

Juan Vega

Many thanks for your opinions.

Seems that Transcribe! may "guess" notes and/or chords! Any first hand
experience with this feature?

Marc;
I'm not sure how useful the feature is but it is more than marketing bullshit as Ron calls it. Transcribe uses a frequency analyzer to identify the pitches and it works pretty well for single note lines but not so much for chords. It shows a graph with the amplitude of the frequencies present. If you understand the harmonic series, it's pretty easy to identify the fundamental as it's louder than the overtones and the overtones should conform to the series (octave, 12th, two octaves, 2 8ves +3rd, etc).

But as I said I'm not sure how useful it is. You transcribe to improve your ears as much as anything else. If you want to let a computer do it for you, just buy a book of transcribed solos.

George


George Hess
ghess1000@...

Haven't heard the freebie but I have to say the considering all the
processing going on to slow it down the sound quality in transcribe
is quite good. I bought it. I was pretty good in the send money NOW
software too.

Ron
Living and playing outside the box.



On Nov 26, 2010, at 2:52 PM, jmc3940 wrote:

Because the 'slow down' effect isn't quite as good, the EQ settings
not as comprehensive, the user interface not as friendly (for me
personally) and it doesn't work will all different audio file
types....

I can't figure out why anyone would use anything other than

BestPractice. It's free and at least as good as anything that you
have to pay for.

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I'm pretty sure I said something to that effect in the unquoted post
you are responding to.

Ron
Living and playing outside the box.

Hi Folks ,

has anybody selling for reasonable price Greco ES 175? in UK?


Bako

Because the 'slow down' effect isn't quite as good, the EQ settings not as comprehensive, the user interface not as friendly (for me personally) and it doesn't work will all different audio file types....

To be fair to Transcribe!, even if you can select the portion of the audio containing _only_ the chord you're trying to identify, the program is presented with all the overtones produced by the instruments (including the drums!) as well as the actual chord notes, so it's a much more difficult task for a computer than for the human ear + brain.

-Keith

Session players are often paid a one off fee and that is all
they will get no matter how successful the recording is.

As example could be "My Girl", Smokey Robinson will have done
well out of it as the writer, The Temptations will have also
done very well as singers - but the other backing players will
have worked for a one off fee. So, although the song has grossed
$Millions many of the people who created the sound never see
any further benefit.

It seems to me that there is a moral issue here; the complete
"sound" of a recording is what people buy and without the
session players (like Barney Kessell,) that sound would not
exist.

It would be a fairer system if players were automatically
entitled to some "Residuals" from recordings.

Will

On Nov 26, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Marc Leduc wrote:

Seems that Transcribe! may "guess" notes and/or chords! Any first hand
experience with this feature?

Marketing bullshit. I have this program and like alot over Slow
[really a] Downer with it's `gimme my money now' screen in your face
every five or ten minutes. The guess feature is not something I'd
even mention. Then it wouldn't be marketing would it? I will tell
you constantly that the track is to cluttered; yea with notes
dipshit! or some other transparent excuse that it doesn't do what
it's maker claims. I paid for it because I like what it does and how
it does it. The guessing part is more in the context of chords it think.

Sometimes it will even make some guesses about the notes in the
chord if you isolate just the chord wave form, but then it's multiple
choice. That said, guessing chords would accurately would take some
very well written code and processing power. The last part we already
have. But as we have discussed here many times chord naming is often
ambiguous depending on context. Hence the need for some
sophistication in the code.

When you have the notes figured out you can let your ears get
involved to home in on what the chords might be.

Ron
Living and playing outside the box.







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Many thanks for your opinions.

Seems that Transcribe! may "guess" notes and/or chords! Any first hand experience with this feature?

Marc

The tunes from Kismet have been done in jazz versions, including an early Wes Montgomery recording. Kismet was based on a Borodin string quartet.

-Keith

John, like wise to you!
?
Mark Cassidy


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I can't figure out why anyone would use anything other than BestPractice. It's free and at least as good as anything that you have to pay for.

Try CNET.com.

From: "础苍诲谤é Rodrigues P. Silva"

If you have the patience: How many classical music songs / themes do you know of

that have been jazzed up, such as, say, Stranger in paradise, Song of India,
etc. ? I really believe it's incredible material for Jazz. <

Back in the 70s, I became interested in classical guitar, and one of the first pieces I learned was a Bach Prelude (BWV 999 I think). I analyzed its structure and thought it had a very modern set of changes. I probably still have that copy, I'll have to dig it out and see what I think of them now.

Brad


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Just a clarification: The type of pickup you have makes a major difference:

If you have a magnetic pick-up, then the amount of magnetic material in the strings might be important. For flat-top guitars, these are the pickups that mount in the soundhole and
look sort of like electric-guitar pickups.

If you have a piezo-electric transducer (crystal based unit) like a Barcus-Berry, Fischman, etc. or some sort of microphone, either inside the guitar or attached to the guitar body, then the amount of magnetic material is not relevant.

The Fischman Infinity is a transducer, the old DeArmond is a magnetic pickup, etc.

Al

Hi there,
If you have the patience: How many classical music songs / themes do you know of
that have been jazzed up, such as, say, Stranger in paradise, Song of India,
etc. ? I really believe it's incredible material for Jazz.


By the way, i love this:



Cheers and Happy thanksgiving.
础苍诲谤é

Hey Folks,

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Make sure you eat well -- given this economy, we may never know the future our
next meal ...

... Thank God for all He has blessed us with for this year!

John Amato
Isaiah 55:11

--- In jazz_guitar@..., Bob Hansmann <bobbybmusic@...> wrote:

You are one nice group of people!
I wish all of you all the best that life has to offer, and I wish for
you all and your loved ones a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving!

"I love to sing-a
About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a,
I love to sing-a,
About a sky of blue-a, or a tea for two-a,
Anything-a with a swing-a to an "I love you-a,"
I love to, I love to sing!"


--
Alisdair MacRae Birch
Guitarist/Bassist/Educator/Arranger

I bought slowdowner before I'd ever heard of transcribe. Slowdowner, it seems to me, couldn't be more intuitive.

You play the tune and click where you want the loop to start and click again where you want it to end.

You drag a slider for pitch and another for speed.

That's the bulk of it.

I couldn't figure out how to do that in Transcribe without reading the manual.

But, Transcribe has many more features which some find useful.