I'm Peter Martin, and I'm Adam Anas.

Welcome to the You'll Hear it podcast.

Today we're going to give you seven secrets for transcribing solos.

So we know how important, Mr. Adam, transcribing solos is, but I guess we're actually talking about learning solos, right?

Indeed.

Yeah, we're talking about being able to listen to a solo that you like and play it.

Learn how to play it.

Right. How to play it exactly how that person that you're learning it from plays it.

Right.

And we're not going to get too deep into why we do that because I think most of you know,

but I mean all the benefits for accumulating vocabulary, the analysis for that solo,

bringing in some of the conception of that solo into our own playing.

But we're going to jump right into giving you some secrets of how you can get through

the transcribing process a little bit easier because it's a very arduous task at times.

It's very difficult. It can take a lot of bit of time, but we think we can help you a little bit.

Yeah, like all things good, it can be a little daunting, but it's worth it. It's worth your time for sure.

Absolutely. Okay. So number one is the simplest, but it's the most overlooked, and that is to pick a solo you already know. I can't stress this enough how important it is and how many times I've seen people screw this up, students screw this up, and trying to learn a solo that you've just heard and that you're so excited about, but you don't really know it. So what you're going to want to do is only pick solos to transcribe or to learn that you already know. Now, what do I mean by already know? That means you can sing along pretty much with the whole solo. You know it. You've heard it. You've listened to it. You love it. You're passionate about it. I mean, it's very hard to learn something

as difficult as somebody else's improvisational solo if you don't like it and really know it. It's just hard to do. So, I mean, why try it? I mean, there's so many great solos out there. Find something that you love and that you've already listened to most likely over and over again because you like it. I mean, it's like trying to learn to cook something that you don't like.

That's going to be hard to do.

You can follow the rest. that you've already listened to most likely over and over again because you like it. I mean, it's like trying to learn to cook something that you don't like.

That's going to be hard to do. You can follow the recipe, but if it's something that you've eaten many times and you already know how it's supposed to taste, as you learn to cook it, I think that you'll be able to do it. So it's as simple as that. Pick a solo you already know. Yeah, and that seems like an obvious concept, that if you don't like it, you're probably not going to put in the energy and the love into it that needs to go into it.

So as you start to learn this solo that you already know and you've already heard a bunch,

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